MISCELLANEOUS.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VI, Issue 447, 14 November 1849, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Marble Arch at Buckingham Palace. — Preparations have commenced for the removal of this celebrated arch, which .will be re-erected at the principal entrance to the Home Park, at Windsor Castle. Madame Sontag (Countess of Rossi) has accepted an engagement from Mr. Lumley, and will immediately appear at her Majesty's Theatre, the scene of her former triumphs. In the recent convulsions of the continent this amiable and gifted lady and her husband, have unfortunately lost the whole of their private fortune, and to secure the future welfare of her family she is compelled to return to the stage. In consequence of the appearance of the cholera bu board the Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Smith OBrien and the other three State prisoners will be sent to Van Diemen's. Land in her Majesty's Ship Swift, ordered to the Pacific station. An address had been presented to the Sultan, signed by many ol the nobility and other leading men of Ireland, thanking his Majesty for his generous donation of £1000 for the relief of distress in that country. The address was very graciously received and a suitable answer returned.

The Temperance Movement. — Among the most interesting and important features of this movement is the fact of the establishment of a society, by which the influence of total abstinence upon the duration of human life will be fairly tested. The society to which we are alluding (the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution) was set on foot in Dec, 1840, and from a statement v/hich is now before us, we learn that during more than eight years the rate of mortality among its members (including ages as high as 73) has actually been less than half the number in other offices. This, it is obvious, is a most important fact, and furnishes a legitimate argument in favour of the views of total abstainers. It is right, however, to mention that the lives of other persons besides total abstainers are insured ; but for just and obvious reasons, the accounts are kept distinct, each section retaining it* proper surplus funds.

Boat for His Royal Highness the v Pkince of Wales. By command of His -Royal Highness Prince Albert, Mr.* H. G.

Robiosoo, Captain Light, Captain Sm \t», R N. and Mr C. Manby, Secretary of the In-, stitutioo of Civil Engineers, attended at Buckingham Palace, on Friday morning, to present a beautiful life boat, constructed on a peculiar principle, for His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. The following are the dimensions of the boat :—: —

She was built by Messrs. George Searle and Sons of Lambeth, bott builders to her Majesty, and is constructed of bird's-eye maple, the linings, saxboards, and thwarts being of Spanish mahogany ; her keel band, stem band and rudder hangings are of bronze, the rudder of maple, with a carved yoke, gilt, and silk lines and tassels of crimson and gold colour. She is also fitted with an elegantly carved chair, the seat of which is covered with crimson satin damask, with an elaborate pattern in raised velvet of the same colour, the back being supported by the Prince of Wales feathers, carved in maple and heightened with gold. The rowing mat is of the same material as the cushion of the chair, and there is a small foot ottoman of Utrecht velvet. The sculls are of mahogany, and very light. The boat, which is a "single sculling skiff," is lined throughout between the timbers with Captain Light's patent material, which gives to her all the buoyancy and other properties of a life boat. In some recent trials of this principle on the boats for the Preventive service at Deal it was found to render them extremely buoyant, and at the same time to stiffen them so much under canvass that it is determined to adopt it for the service generally, as the duties upon which these boats are employed are such that they are constantly in danger of being swamped ; but the recent experiments showed that when the boats were lined with Light's buoyancy material they were capable of carrying a full complement of hands with much morp dead weight than usual, and yet when filled gunwale deep with water could not be submerged. The same principle has been extensively used in the construction of life belts, buoys, &c, and for the stuffing yatcht cushions, mattresses, &c; and as the material used is merely light tough reeds properly prepared, ari~d only three-fifths the weight of cork, no injury can ensue from puncture or cutting, as with air cushions, or the destruction .of the elasticity, as in the case of cork shavings. — Ibid.

Cardinal Cheveraux. — If we had many ministers like the late Archbishop of Bordeaux, Cardinal Cheveraux, we should soon see Christianity in a flourishing state. He had emigrated 1793, as a French priest, to North America, where he was eventually appointed to a bishopric. Sometime after the accession of Charles the Tenth, he was recalled to France, and nominated Bishop of Montauban. When he left New York, he was attended on board the ship by all the ministers of New York, of every denomination. Catholic, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Independent, Methodist, Baptist, &c, all grieved for his' departure. While he was bishop of Montauban, the Protestants of that district were preparing to erect a new church, and the place they had fixed on for it was close to bis palace. Some of bis attendant priests were indignant, and exhorted him to interfere aud prevent a heretical conventicle from being erected so near to his residence. Cheveraux's answer was "Ah, my friends, I am bappy to hear that they are going to fix themselves in my neighbourhood, as I know by experience that there are no such good neighbours as pedpla that worship God." When he was at Bordeaux, a body of Jews, emigrating from Spain to avoid persecution, came to that city in great distress, and wishing to collect money to enable them to go to Germany or Holland, they applied, among others, to Cheveraux. He ordered his almoner to give them a sum of money, much to the horror of the attendant clergy, one of whom murmured, iv a way that could not be misunderstood, "Are you aware that the men to whom you are giving this bounty are Jews 1" The Cardinal without reproving him, or entering into any arguments, at once said, "You are right ; I ought to have considered that they were Jews. Poor men, I sincerely pity and feel for them." Then turning to his almoner, be said, " You will double the sum I desired you to give them ;" and he then thanked the priest who had spoken, for putting him in mind of his. duty. This truly excellent prelate died in 1836.

The French Envoy Gone Mad ! — The French Government received on Tuesday morning, the sth instant, the official news that M. Lesseps, the Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome, has positively , become deranged in his intellect. A letter is said to have been addressed to the President of the Republic by M. Leneps himself, in

which he proposes to him (the President) a detailed plan of a bedchamber. It was believed this unhappy incident would still further complicate the Italian question.

Lord Ponsonby's Cure for the Cholera. — One-sixth part of camphor dissolved in strong spirits of wine. Take two drops on pounded loaf sugar in a teaspoonful of cold water. A dose every five minutes for six or seven times, if necessary, until cramps and sickness cease, and warmth returns. Any other medicine taken will destroy the effect of the camphor. It is asserted by Lord Ponsonby's agent that the patient is universally cured betore a medical man can arrive.

Mrs.-Teoi.i.ope's Opinion of Mb. Forrest. — The following passage from Mrs. Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans, published in the year 18S2, proves, at least, that the national propensity to defend, and. resolutely maintain, the theatrical supremacy of Mr. Forrest, is of long standing : — " We also saw the great American star, Mr. Forrest. What he may become I will not pretend to prophesy ; but when I saw him play Hamlet at Cincinnati, not even Mrs. Drake's sweet Ophelia could keep me beyond the third act. It is true that I have seen Kerable, Macready, Kean, Young, C. Kemble, Cook, and Talm,a play Hamlet, and might not, perhaps, be a very fair judge of this youug actor's merits ; but I was greatly amused when a gentleman who asked my opinion of him, told me, upon hearing it, that he would not advise me to state it freely in America, • for they would not bear it.' "—Vol. 1., p. 126.

Soluble Glass. — What is called soluble glass is novr beginning to come into use as a covering for wood, and other practical purposes. Some of our clever artizans may like to experiment upon it. It is composed of fifteen parts of powdered quartz, ten of potash, and one of charcoal. These are meled together, worked in cold water, and then boiled with five parts of water, in which it entirely dissolves. It is then applied to woodwork, or any other required substance. As it cools it gelatinises, and dries up into a transparent colourless glass, on any surface to which it has been applied. It renders wood nearly incombustible. — New York True Sun.

Extraordinary Robbery. — An Englishman arrived here this year, who could scarcely speak a word of Italian. He heard, of course, not a little about assassins, robbers, and sucli like, and prudently resolved never to go alone, and never to be out after dusk. Both these resolutions were fated to fail. He dined with a friend near Rome, and was obliged to walk home alone the same night ; this looked terrific before dinner : but a few glasses of Marsala, and a few more of Champagne, braced up his couiage, and away he started, about ten o'clock. As he walked briskly along in the darkness he caiue full butt against a man. He was startled, and the tales he had heard recurred to his recollection ; but the man passed on, and in a short time our hero felt for his watch, and found that it was gone. Then the good wine came into play : he rushed back, seized the rascal, and vehemently demanded ' Montre ! Montre !' The robber trembled and reluctantly yielded up the watch. On reaching home, he recounted, with no little exultation, his heroic exploit, and vowed that if the rest of the world would behave as he had done, robbery would cease in Rome in a fortnight. Wh^n he had finished his oration, his sister said, " All this is very strange, for after you went out I saw your watch hanging in your room, and there it is now." Sure enough there it was. So it appeared past all dispute, that, instead of being robbed, hp had himself committed a robbery ! — Memoirs of Sir 'L homas Fovell Buxton.

Interesting Recollections of the " Forget-me-Not." — Miss Strickland, in her late work on the Queens of England, has given us a statement of the cause of the name forget-me-not, scarcely less poe<ical than that which has for centuries been sung by poets of all the lands of Europe. Speaking of Henry of Lancaster, she says, " This royal adventurer — the banished and aspiring Lancaster — appears to have been the person who gave to the myosotis arvensis, or forget-me-not, its emblematical and poetical meaning, by uniting at the period of bis exile, on his collar of S.S., with the initial letter of bis mot or watchword, Souvegnie ous de may ; thus rendering it the symbol of remembrance, and, like the subsequent fatal roses of York nod Lancaster, and Stuart — the lily of Bourbon, and the violet of Napoleon — an historical flower. Few of those who, at parting, exchange this simple touching appeal to memory are aware of the fact that it was first used as such by a royal Flantagenet prince, who was, perhaps, indebted to the agency of this mystic blossom for the crown of England. It was %iih his hostess, at that time wife of the Duke of Bretagne, that Henry exchanged this token of good will and remembrance."

Pass the Bottle. — Theodore Hook, when dining with the author of * work enti-

tied "Three Words to a Drunkard," was asked to review it. "Oh, my dear fellow, that I have done already in three words — pass the bottle^ The Jamaica Dispatch gives tbl particulars of an accident which befel the Bishop a few days previously. It appears be was proceeding from his mountain residence, when his horse fell down a precipice nearly 250 ft. deep» His lordship had a narrow escape. His fall was arrested within a few feet of the surface of the road, by his clutching and clinging to the branch of a tree. His escape from instant death was most miraculous.

Failure of the Crops in South Russia. — The crops have entirely failed in that part of the Czar's dominions. Numbers of the poor people have perished of famine, and the scurvy, which has broken out there with unexampled virulence, is making the most frightful ravages amongst all classes. So great is the distress prevailing in that part of the Russian empire, that the ukase lately issued by the Czar for raising eight men in every thousand has been suspended.

The Italian Clergy. — An Italian correspondent of the Times writes thus from Florence :—": — " The hierarchy iv Italy, are not, as I conceive, hated entirely for their lust of power and the bad use they put it to ; they are despised as well as hated by the whole mass of the people for their general wholesale depravity of every sort. The Italians have been too much behind the scenes ever to have the smallest respect for their clergy, and, in fact, there is scarce such a thing as pure and sincere religious feeling in the country, especially in Rome. Utter recklessness and total infidelity is the order of the day there. If the Pope be restored, his presence will do more ill than good ; and when such becomes the case with the head of the religion, what is to be prognosticated as the fate of the flock ?"

A Plague of Serpents. — Referring to the inundation at New Orleans, a local paper says :—": — " We learn that on Sunday a man who was walking barefooted in the inundated portion of the First Municipality was bitten in the leg (probably by a mocasin snake), and shortly afterwards expired. On the same evening a little lad was either bitten by a similar animal, or a congo, and died soon afterwards from the effects." Another paper advises all who live in the inundated districts to beware of the gang of snakes, which, driven out by the water, seek the shelter of houses. Already we bare heard of several persons having been bitten, and in consequence we deem it proper to advise our friends to keep a bright look out for the reptiles. All who know their habits understand well their penchant for a comfortable coil between the sheets of a bed, or a snug retreat under the pillow. Cholera appeals to be extending its ravages over the whole of America. The accounts from Texas are very deplorable. Cholera' and the Indians were committing s*ad havoc amongst the population. Newfoundland dates of the 22nd of May state that the whole island was surrounded by ice, rendering it unapproachable for vessels. The steamer, with the bishop on board could not reach it. The passengers were obliged to disembark, and walk 50 miles on the ice before they could reach the land. A large number of the inhabitants had petitioned Government, soliciting the necessary means to emigrate on account of the poverty existing on the island.

The Surviving Officers of Waterloo. — There are 520 survivors of Wateiloo at this moment among the commissioned officers of the army. They comprise 2 fieldmarshals, 6 generals, 20 lieutenant-generals, 43 major-generals, 64 colonels, 79 lieute-nant-colonels, 31 majors, 61 captains, 117 lieutenants, 10 paymasters, 44 quartermasters, 41 medical officers, and 2 veterinary surgeons. Siamese Twins. — The Siamese twins,

who have been living some years, with wives and children, on their own plantation in North Carolina, are said to be on their way to New York to embark for Europe, with a view to consult the most eminent surgeons on the practicability of an operation to divide the ligament that binds them together. It is further said that one of their sisters had been adopted into the family of the Emperor of Siam. — Netoark Advertiser, U.S. April 13.

The late Sir Benjamin D'Ueban. — Sir Benjamin DUrban, Commander of her Majesty's forces in British North America, expired at Montreal on the 28th ult. The gallant officer entered the army nearly 60 years ago, his first commission in the 2nd Dragoon Guards bearing ihe date of 1793. He subsequently served in the 28th Dragoons in St. Domingo; he was also for a short time iv the 20th Dragoons, the 25th Light ditto, and in the 89th Foot. He served on the staff in Ireland, and in 1808 he went to Spain as an Assistant Quarter Master General, under Sir David Baird. His services in the Peninsula were at the battles and aeiges

of Busaco, Albuera, Ciadad Rodrigo, Bad*jo3, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Pyrennees, the Nivelle, the Nive, and Toulouse. He was a Grand Cross of the Bath, and colonel of the 51st foot, vrhich regiment he had held since 1829.

The Manchester Gurdinn states that, during Whit- week one hundred and fifty thousand persons, left that town by railway. Aged Poets. — The Inverness Courier had the following gossip respecting our living poets ; — " Here is Wordsworth, aged 79» writing sonnets. (He wrote one lately on the Sisters of Mercy, at Exeter.) There is Samuel Rogers, aged 87, running about to routs and picture sales. James Montgomery, at Sheffield, in his 77th year, is still intent on poetry and benevolence ; and Thomas Moore the Little, who, Upon Monday next enters upon 70, sings his Irish melodies with as much gusto as ever, sips his pint of cla* ret, and now and then indites honeyed verses on rosy lips, blue eyes, and " all that sort of thing." Joanna Baillie, bordering on four score, still graces her retreat at Hampstfiad* One of the early lakers, Thomas de Quincy, after encountering many reverses in 70 years, and after eating more opium than would kill a company of grenadiers, dreams and writes classic dreams somewhere about ' Auld Reekie,' joined occasionally by Professor Wilson, who is getting lazy, though only 61. So literature keeps its place in the green old haunts."

Mdlle. Georges, one of the most celebrated of Paris theatrical heroines, took her farewell, of jhe stage a few days ago. Her life exhibits the most extraordinary series of vicissitudes ever experienced by any of her Protean sisterhood. From opulence to penury, from the very height of popularity down to the lowest depths of misery and neglect, Mdlle* Georges has tasted of every excitement, of every emotion, She was once the favorite of the Emperor Napoleon, and then her expenditure rivalled in extravagance that of the Empress Josephine. She has since been reduced to join a company of strolling players, and to play in open circus, run up to amuse the caravans of merchants and pedlars who congregate from all parts of Russia at the great fair of Odessa.

General Bachelor, one of the most di«* tinguished veterans of the empire, and a devoted friend of the President of the Republic, died in Paris on Saturday.

ExTRAORDIEARY CHOLERA TEST ON FOUE Murderers. — For some time past the dispute among the medical men at Petersburg!), respecting the contagious and non-contagious character of cholera, became so warm that it threatened the peace of the capital. The Czar, at length, adopted the following method to decide the question i — Four murderers, sen* tenced to death, were put on a bed lately occupied by four cholera patients, who had died. And yet the murderers did not take the disease. It was then announced to the murderers that they were about being placed on beds in which four persons died of malignant cholera, and that if they escaped the disease their lives would be spaied. But instead of cholera beds the murderers were put into beds which had not been occupied by diseased persons ; and yet, such was the effect of their fears, the four died within three days. Mr. P. Cunningham, in his valuable "Hand book for London," just published, relates :—: — A little abore the entrance door to the office of stamps and taxes, is a white watch face, regarding which the popular belief has been, and is, that it was left there by a labouring man who fell from a scaffold at the top of the building, and was only saved from destruction by the ribbon of his watch, which caught in a piece of projecting work. In thankful remembrance, (so the story runs) of his wonderful escape, he afterwards desired that his watch might be placed as near as possible to the spot where his life had been saved. Such is the story told fifty times a week to groups of gaping listeners — a story lam sorry to disturb, ior the watch of the labouring man is I nothing more than a watch face, placed by the Royal Society as a meridian mark for a portable transit instrument in one of the windows of their ante rooms. To this account of Somerset house, I may add a little circumstance of interest which I was told by an old clerk on the establishment of the Audit office. " When I first "frame to this building," he said, " I was in the habit of seeing for many mornings, a thin spare naval officer with only one arm, enter the vestibule at a smart step, and make direct to the Admiralty, over the rough stones of the quadrangle, instead of taking what others generally took, and continue to take, the smooth pavement of the sides. His thin frail figure shook at every step, and 1 often wondered why he chose so rough a footway ; but I ceased to wonder when I heard that the thin frail officer was no other than Lord Nelson, who always took," continued my informant, " the nearest way to the place he wanted to go to."

Father Proct's Sermon. — Many are the »toriet afloat of the real Father Prout in

,!' 11l the wild district in which be dwelt, but his most famous performance was his sermon. There is an old story, resting, I believe on no better authority than Joe Miller, or some of his kindred, that Dean Swift once preached on the text of *' He who giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord," and that the sermon was -only *' If you like the security, down with your dust." It may reasonably doubted that the Dean, or any other clergyman, made such a, discourse, but it is tolerably certain that Front delivered something like the following on the same text : — " * He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord.' This is my text, •and now listen to me carefully while I explain it to ye ; in the first place, then, it is nicessary according to the rules of logic, with which PI! not throuble the likes of you, for that would be throwing pearls before swine, — that is to say, to explain the mailing of our words, before we proceed in razoningupon 'm. Thin, the chief word here to be explained, is, who's the 'poor V the rest is aisy enough, at least so far as the explanation goes, though I don't find it come aisy in any other way. Now, you'll p'raps say it's the beggars, and the cripples, and the blind travellers, and the rest of them kind o' cattle, that's the poor ; it's no such thing — for that's their Business to beg, just as much as it's your business to dig, or to thrash ; they're used to it, and they like it, and long may it be a provision to them and their heirs for ever. Then agin you'll say it's your ownselves is the poor ; God knows you are poor and nagurly"[niggardly]] enough, but you ain't the poor that's meant in the- scripther. Ant it your natue to slave and toil ? To be sure it is ; and therefore he that would give to you, would not be lending to the Lord in the laste degree, but indeed throwing away his money. Then you'll ax me who's the poor ? and I'll enlighten your blind ignorance by letting you know that it's the clargy of God. It's I and my brethren that's the poor; we do nothing whereby we are to get our bread, barring feeding ye with spititual instruction, and ugly mouths ye have to be crammed with it ; we toil not, neither do we spin, and yet if Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed better than us, he'd many a time weir a coat out at the elbows. Therefore, in place of the ' poor,' put in the word • clargy,' and then it will run this way :* 'He that giveth to the clargy lendeth to the Lord,' which is the true and unadulterated maningof the text. Tbatbting the text, then, now for the application :—l's: — I's only last Tuesday" since I went down to the fair of Lisgoold, to buy a horse ; and it rained as if the heavens and earth were coming together. Well, there you were in hundreds, the whole set of you — and you looked on me, while I was getting wet to the skin, and so far as you were concerned, not an inch deeper ; — there wasn't one of you said, * Father Prout, will you take a glass Y. or ' Father Prout, will you take a tumbler of punch V or ' Father Prout will you take a shabby pint o' porter ?' — no, not one of you ! whereby, I was obliged to go to the house of Mr. Muu Roche, of Kyldynan, a dacent fellow, and an honest man, although he is a heretic ; and there, to your eternal disgrace, I got myself as full as a tick, and Mun sent me home in bis own carriage — which is a shame to you who belong to the true church. Is that fulfilling the scriptber ? Is that following the words of the text, ' He that giveth to the clargy lendeth to the lord ? What account can I give of you when I am axed upon a certain occasion that shall be nameless ? However, go away, and think of it — and never be exposed to the same shame again, of refusing a loan when the Lord requires it." — Literary Chronicle

Natjdaud, the " Bricklayer" Deputy. — The most remarkable member of the new French Assembly, whose election is the most curious sign of the change in the approaching times, is that of Naudaud, a common working mason and bricklayer, without any pretension to talent, and who defends himself from the imputation of having sought the distinction thus thrust upon him. The history of this singular choice is most curious, and is so strongly illustrative of French manners, that it would be a pity not to exhibit to the English the way in which these things are managed in France. Naudaud, who is the most honest creature in existence, walked from the Cr'euse some few years since, with no other baggage than his hod and trowel, to seek employment in Paris. Fortune favoured him, for he soon obtained work, and being found to be a steady hard-working fellow, was held in high estimation by bis employers. His wife, meanwhile, had endeavoured to assist the little menage by keeping a stall, from whence she distributed fried potatoes at a small profit to the hungry comrades of her husband. This commerce succeeded tetter than the handicraft of Naudaud, and it was soon found that she could earn more in one day by her frying pan than he could do in a week by the most assiduous labour. Madame Naudad, thus encouraged by success, opened a small gargolte on the Place dv Pantheon,

which became the resort of all the masons and bricklayers who worked in , that quarter of Paris ; the Bibliotheque of St. Genevieye was then in progress, and\ sometimes as many as three hundred workmen would assemble the gargotte of the Bonne Mere Naudaud, to eat their soup and bouilte, and talk over the affairs of government when work was over. During the tempest occasioned by the revolutiou of February, great was the distress among the masons, more particularly than amongst any other class of workpeople. Public employment was suspended entirely, while private individuals, no longer eager for the fulfilment of their contracts, dismissed the greater portion of their workmen, and thus thousands were left without money, without employment, and almost without hope. In this dilemma, Naudaud stepped forward, unable to bear the sight of misery around him, and, with the consent of his wife, announced his intention of continuing to furnish dinner and supper as heretofore, to those of his comrades whom the hardness of the times had deprived of resources. You can judge with what degree of enthusiasm such an announcement was received. "My wife has saved six thousand francs," said Naudaud to the assembled workmen ; if you had not been honest and bons camarades, we should now have been as poor as you. We will live together upon this money till better times come round. Those who earn ever so small a pittance might bring it to the fund ; let us help each other, and all will go well," Of course this ptoposition was agreed to on the instant — and it is believed that in no case was it deviated from during all the troublous times. Naudaud certainly never expected any other acknowledgment of his generous conduct than that afforded by the esteem and gratitude of bis friends, but his wife, who participates with all Frenchwomen in that same ambition and selfconceit which makes the whole country subject to petticoat rule, entered into a private arrangement with her customers by which all obligations due to her were to be cancelled by the nomination of her husband to the Assembly. The whole of the masons who work in Paris come from the department of the Creuse, and the affair was soon arranged, the popularity of Naudaud amongst this class being so great, that he might have been elected President had a vacancy occurred. They say that the surprise, however, far exceeds the delight with which he greeted the announcement of the distinction of which he had been made the object, and that it is metely to satisfy the ambition of his wife that he consents to take his place in the Chamber.* He persisted in going to work until the very day of the Assembly, and presented himself at the door in the blouse and casquette which he had been accustomed to wear. The huissier on duty refused at first to admit him, whereupon Naudaud, with the greatest sangfroid turned hack, exclaiming "Do as you please, bon ami, I'll go> to work again. What a good excuse I shall have now' I need only tell my fellows that they wou't admit me." The speech was heard by the bystanders, and presently the huissier came running after the unhappy blousaire, and led him all sheepish and ashamed to the seat he is to occupy during the ensuing session. It is confidently asserted that bad Naudaud been compelled to withdraw, the incident would have caused a serious riot in Paris. " How will you manage a discourse?" said his neighbour on the bench. " I shan't speak at all," replied Naudaud, " but shall content myself with voting with those who uphold the constitution." — Atlas.

" The last number (the 4th) of the Conseiller dv Peuple, M. de Lamartine's journal, is beyond all doubt, the most interesting of the series. The article entitled Rdpublique et Anarchic ; ou, Dimocratie et Demagogic, is eloquently written. In the course of his observations on the events of the 13th June, he speculates on what would be the immediate results if the movement of that memorable day had succeeded. • The day after his elevation to power, the dictator, whoever he might be,' says M. Lamartine, ' would cry — '* *To arms ! Form your battalions ; pass the Alps on this side, the Rhine on that. Cross the Pyrenees ! Invade Belgium on the north r Inundate Germany, Holland, Prussia, Pojand, Hungary ! Raise the people in every direction ! Revolutionize the continent. Begin the Crusade of Demagogues in all directions, and you would unquestionably follow your leaders — some of you through fanaticism, others through fear.' " The following extracts are also interesting: — " * Do you know what would happen then ? (continues M. Lamartine). I will tell you ; and with the same frankness, the same certainty, as if the fatal event had already passed before my eyes. I will tell it to you, because I know it to be the fact ; because it is my business to know the spirit that actuates foreign nations ; the strength as well as the weakness of Cabinets ; the character of the people, the amount of armies.^ Well, then, at the very

first moment such an appeal was heard, you would be like the swollen stream that overflows its banks. Here and there, in Italy and in Belgium, on the banks of the Rhine, in the smaller and insignificant states of Italy, and Germany especially, you would obtain brilliant success ; you would sing a few Te Deums — that is to say, the Ca-Ira, the Te Deum of the guillotine. You would enter Brussels ; you would fraternize with the German and Belgium demagogues in the Prussian cities of the Rhenish provinces ; you would raise a part of Savoy, of Piedmont, of Genoa, and of Naples, perhaps ; perhaps eveo you might gain a victory, like Jemmappes, over the first Austrian or Prussian army that would dispute Germany with you. But, after all that, do you know whom you would encounter as the rear guard 1 Nothing less than the continental world in arms against you ! Yes. I repeat, the very day after you had declared war against the continent, England would proclaim the coalition. Believe it, it is England alone that has it in her power. But so long as you only maintain your own rights, so long as you remain in your own territory, while you do not violate the laws of nations, and while you respect the rights of the people, even England is powerless against you ; she cannot form a coalition without exposing herself to ruin. And why ? because England is a land of freedom — a country where public opinion is superior to kings, queens, and ministers. Public opinion would instantly drive from power a Government who should proclaim a coalition against the French Republic, if the French Republic attacked no one. The feeling of right and justice is sovereign in London ; and the right being on your side, not an Englishman would ever enrol a single soldier against you. The Democratic and Socialist Republic declaring war J and crossing the Rhine, England would at once cross the channel. She would support Belgium with an array, and protect Holland with her fleet. She would subsidize Prussia, Hanover, and the whole of the secondary German States of the North, Their contingents, united to the Prussian army, would form in two montlis a host of 350,00 men, well-armed and disciplined. England would furnish Vienna with the means to pay the 400,000 men of the Austrian army, and bring with the Austriau army the armies of Southern Germany, of Bavaria, of Wurtemberg, and of the small states of Germany near the Rhine. She would obtain peace, or a truce for the common safety, between Hungary and Austria, on conditions of federative independence in favour of Hungary, as the price ol her co-operation in the German League against you. Hungary would become, with her grenadiers and her hussars, the nerve and the wings of the German army. In a word, England, with her treasures in her hand, and with glory in the perspective, would announce to the Emperor of Russia that the cause of the continent, and of society all over Europe, summoned him to the Danube or the Rhine. The Emperor of Russia, leaving behind him 400,000 men to keep Poland and the troubled spirits in Hungary in check, would lead 300,000 men* to the field of battle. He would find there at least 60,000 Englishmen, Belgians, and Dutch, under the orders of a second Wellington, or pe r baps under the same veteran, Wellington himself, the Hannibal of France — for veteran warriors do not decay under fire. Thus, you would have a total of nationalized and paid contingents against your aggressive warfare, of 1,200,000 or 1,250,000 combatants — I do not exaggerate by a single bayonet. Could you vanquish them ? While you keep on your own soil, I boldly say, Yes ! You have 2,000,000 t of National Guards ready to be mobilized, who on the national soil would annihilate the invaders. But in an enemy's country, in the heart of Germany, in the midst oi cities, in the country, with the spirit of race and national honour outraged and exasperated against you, I boldly affirm, No ! No ! You would be annihilated. You are not Napoleon ! You have not the whole continent to supply you with recruits ; Spain and Italy to supply you with money, and to feed you. Napoleon, with all these resources at his command, and with all his genius — even he was obliged to retrace his steps, in this war of one against all, from Moscow to Dresden, from Dresden to Leipsic, from Leipsic to Paris, from Paris to Waterloo ! You would be beaten back, cut up, overwhelmed by these 1,200,000 warriors. You would be pursued, after defeats which would demoralize all France, even to the point where Napoleon himself was driven. I will not say where. You, yourselves, know it too well. You would issue forth with defiance against the world, and the same world would come eight months after, to demand, with the aid of 1,000,000 of Germans, Russians, Englishmen, and Spaniards, not merely a Fontainbleau abdication, but the abdication of France. Such is the fate that would be prepared for yoju by your socialists, your demagogues, your contentions, and your dictators. Oh, shame, ahame !' "

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