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\ WEEKLY JOURNAL OF POLITICS, LITERATURE AND NEWS,

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MOON'S PHASES. — SEPTEMBER, 1856.

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Full Moon Mth day, 9h. 20m. morning. N.W.

Last Quarter 2lst day, lh. 9m. morning. E.

New Moon 28th day, 12h. 9m. evening. N.

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: . Literature,

SON NLS LN ANILINE LILO LOLOL NL LOLOL LLL THE FLOWERS’ PETITION. We tlowers and shrubs in cities pent, from fields and country places rent, ( Without our own or friends’ consent, ) in desperate condition, Yet on no wilful outrage bent, Do humbly here petition.

Whereas, against our silent wills;

With loss of sun and purling rills,

Cooped up in pots, on window sills ; In rickety old boxes,

The city’s breath our beauty kills, And makes us gray as foxes.

Condemned in walks of brick and lime,

in narrow beds of clay and slime,

fo ope our buds and shed our prime— We need some kind defender ;

We pray, oh, let us live our time !

As we are very tender.

Oh, cheat us not of Heavyen’s dews, Nor air (however stale) refuse ; Ciod knows ‘tis little we can use, So choked are all our vitals; Nor slichtest care will we a%use, Nor fail in fund requitals.

We'll breathe our delicate perfumes ; We'll glad your eves with choicest blooms ; Bat do not shut us up in rooms,

- Ur stifling, crowde i places—

Phe sky in clouds and light assumes

To us fur lovelier faces.

Our sooty and bedraggled fate,

(Our evergreens turn chocolate),

Do we ascribe to spite or hate? No! we are sure you love us;

et half as! umed. we bee to state

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above us. Then treat us in your gentle ways, And next unto the san’s own rays, With beauty’s homage, incenge praise, We ever will caress you, And to the ending of our days In grateful silence bless you. « Househo'd Words.

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NEW WORKS.

From the Crimean Expedition. BATTLE OF THE ALMA.

Placed upon a hill the marshal sees the whole of the movements of his army; he follows with his eye his valiant troops, disperse! upon different points, and climbing under a murderous fire, the acclivities of the Alma. Oh! my brave soldiers! cried he often. Worthy sons of Austerlitz and Friedland! He wishes to be everywhere at once; for

) danger is everywhere. He is no longer the sick man ex- 5S ? & hausted by his suffering. The noise of battle has revived his strength; his look flies with his thought. He hears oS ? Ss Bosquet’s cannon; he sees the Srd Division climbing the q £ last acclivities; he sees the battalion of the Ist crowning the heights, and marching through a torrent of grape; but he also sees, advancing against them, formidable masses; and all around him, bullets bound and shells burst. He foresces, he divines, that it is upon this point, attacked simultaneously by these two Divisions, that the heat of the battle must now be concentrated ; that it is there that the Rassians will fight with desperation. He sends orders to General Forey (who placed at first on the right of Prince Napoleon’s Division, to connect it with the right of the Eaglish, had proceeded under fresh orders, with bis Division

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of reserve, towards General Bosquet),—to despatch one of

his Brigades to General Canrobert, and to proceed himself, with the other, to the extreme right. The General rapidly traversed, with General de Lourmel’s Brigade, the village of Almatamack, and crossed the river; while d’Aurelle’s Brigade puts itself in motion, to rejoin the Ist Division. This latter Brigade passes before the little Mamelon, upon which the Commander-in-Chief is placed, surrounded by all his staff. Directly the marshal perceives General d’Aurelle, he cries aloud : General, go and place yourself, without loss of an instant, at the disposition of Canrobert, who has so much to do up there! I count upon you, d’Aurelle! The latter, fur answer, waves his kepi in the air, shouts Vive P’Empereur! and dashes forward in the direction which is indicated to him. CAPTURE OF MENSCHIKOFEP’S CARRIAGE.

No one could describe the irresistable dash of the troops, during this memorable day, or that warlike ardour which boiled in the veins of the soldiers and officers. -What heroic traits, what sublime deaths, have remained obscure and unrecorded! During the battle, when the marshal gal- lopped from one point to another, the wounded, as he passed, half rising and seeking to draw themselves towards him,—

while waving in the air their mutilated arms, cried: We | immensity was

have them, marshal! we have them! battle blended with the enthusiasm of victory. It was the first time that the cannon of France had thundered in this war. The enemy, astounded, retreated without endeavour- ing to interrupt our march, and without even defending those

The distinctive genius of the French and English pations, and the individual character of each people, were strikingly manifested on this occasion. While our soldiers and our artillery dashed forward, borne on by an irresistible im-

slackening or accelerating their march, and facing every those who accompanied him; but his horse was killed by a etre seul.” The prince, who was then left alone, used his respondent.

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horse-batteries of the reserve had gone to the front to that he had the fullest confidence in the word of a French oppose the charges of cavalry, which were apprehended on

officer, and that he was quite free to bear tidings of himself

the part of the Russians, and by which, no doubt, they to the French camp, if he would pledge his honour to retarn

would seek to cover their retrogade movement. The Jame | immediately, M. de Dampierre consented ; und but a few)

-mandant de la Boussiniere was en batterie in this position, | hours had elapsed, when he returned within the lines of the

when he saw a carriage drawn by three horses abreast, come into view, at about 600 yards distance. This carriage Was coming in a straight line, and at the utmost speed of its horses, Directly the persons who accompanied it re- cognised the French artillery, they endeavoured to alter their caurse; but the Commandant pursued them instantly with twenty artillerymen, thinking they might be bringing a courier from Sebastopol, and overtook the carriage, when it was not more than 100 yards from the Russian squadrons ; from whom a rising ground had at first hidden the various incidents of this scene.

|_ If, says the baron, the English cavalry, commanded by Lucan, had become bewildered in the marshes of the Alma, | they would have been of immense service at the close of the | battle; and in his journal, St. Arnaud remarks :—If I had more cavalry, Prince Menschikoff would no-longer have an jarmy; but The remainder of the sentence is not | published ; but we do not think, if known, it would prove very complimentary to Lord Lucan. The allies march on | Sebastopol, and the baron thus describes the sufferings of

TUE DYING MARSHAL.

This long and wearisome day had eruelly fatigued the marshal, and he had suffered from more violent attacks of cholera. Doctor Cabrol, whose devotion never slackened for a single day or a single hour, still struggled against this terrible disease with energy and pertinacity. The marshal exerted himself beyond his strength, in order to keep him- iself informed concerging the army, of which he was the |chief'; to occupy himself with its well-being, to give orders jand anticipate the chances of a perilous. situation; but the | disease subdued the energy of even his will, and his ideas were extinguished in their conception, and his words upon his lips. Durtny the night the exhaustion of his forces became such, that Dr. Cabrol expressed the greatest anxiety to Cvlonel Trochu, the private secretary and first aide-de-camp of the marshal. There was nowa sad task for the colonel to fu fil; one of those painful and difficult missions, for the ‘accomplishmeut of which, strength is found only in the con- sciousness of duty. It was still night, when the culonel entered the tent of the marshal. To the excessive weakness, there had succeeded a sort of nervous excitement. His heavy eyelids we.e raised occasionally, revealing a glance in ; which shone ouly a feverish light. stumped its fatal impression upon that beld visage, the pale- ‘ness of which had now become fearful. Monsieur le }marechal, said the colonel, abruptly, and making a violent effort of self-command, Doctor Cabrol has made himself /master of your disease, and you. will conquer this as you jbave emquered other things; but you suffer too much, marshal, to continue to occupy yourself with the innumera- ible details of your command. This constant anxiety is | painful to you; and the moment has arrived (a sad moment, |but one of imperious necessity) when you must, in order to obtain that repose which is so necessary for you, remove vall anxiety from your mind. The marshal gazed steadfastly upon the colonel. Yes, said he,a moment afterwards; I understand you. Send for General Canrobert. It was then four o’clock in the morning. The colonel sent immediately for the general, who reached the tent of the Commander-in- | Chief, before five o’clock. Hie was at once admitted. The | marshal was greatly exhausted. Upon hearing some one enter his tent, he turned his head and perceiving General _Canrobert, said to him in a feeble voice: you have made me | acquainted, general, with the instructions of his Majesty, | which confides to you the Command-in-Chief of the army, in ease my health should force me to abandon it. From ,to-day, take the command. Ia surrendering it into your hands, general, I feel less regret at resigning it. The \general was much affected. Who should have been s0, | before this aspect of death ? Before this silent grief of the \soldier, whose strength thus deserted him in the hour of battle? Ife bowed and expressed, in a few simple but nobly-conceived words, his regrets, shared by all, that the condition of the marshal did not permit him to retain his ‘command, The marshal gave him his hand; and this was all,

St. Arnaud embarked for France on board a French steamer. The following is the description of

SAINT ARNAUD’S DEATH.

Life was utterly worn out in this frame which had so long struggled to retain it. At about two o'clock, Dr. Cabrol | thought that the fatal hour had arrived. Then all sad and silent, the devoted friends who had determined not to abandon the marshal, assembled round the bed of death. With them were the captain and the first lieutenant of the vessel. The ‘marshal had recovered that calmness, that serenity, which God, in his infinite mercy, gives to tae dying. The ex- pression of suffering, which till then had contracted his emaciated features, had disappeared: He threw a long and tranquil regard around the little cabin, which was slightly rocked by the motion of the sea; thanked, in a few words, | those who surrounded him, and whose tears sufficiently spoke their grief; then all on earth being finished, his thoughts were directed solely to Heaven. Le closed his eyes—no (doubt to call up the images of absent boloved ones, to whom ihis heart sent a last adieu—and at times broken exclama- tions escaped from his lips: Oh! the Emperor! Oh! my poor Louise! This silence in the midst of the surrounding sad and solemn ; a supreme picture of death,

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The enthusiasm of placed by the hand of God between the sky and the sea!

| Not a breath but that which came from on high! not a movement but that of the waves! The marshal opened his

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Russian advanced posts, to fulfil his promise and resume his captivity.

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KAUNITZ, THE AUSTRIAN STATESMAN.

Kaunitz was ove of the most singular mea who have lived. Sprung from an original Slavonie race, he rose like a meteor in the official sky of Austria. In him the ponderous but sterling and steady Austro-German character, was, in a most peculiar manner, blended with the mercurial versatility of the French man of the world. He was, besides, the most remarkable mixture of great and petty qualities. Just as in an almost fabulous degree he had all the foibles of gallantry and vanity, he also was eminently possessed of the very sort of routine and diplomatic skill that was best fitted for the world in which he lived. During the whole of his life, he paid particular attention to his toilet, which was at all times to him an affair of paramount importance. He was always dressed in good taste, and, on particular occasions, even with magnificence ; but he did not much concern himself about conforming to the prescribed regulations of costume. From the very beginning of his being in power, writes Baron Karst, Kaunitz placed himself above the court etiquette. With the Spanish costume he wore white. (instead of red) stockings, and made his appearance with a bag to his wig, and witha large muff. Although he had been told to comply with existing customs, he would not always do so. He was everywhere, except when at court, accompanied by a large bull-dog, His wig wasa remarkable article of the description,

his forehead, ran across it ina zigzag line. He seems to have been the inventor of the fantastic art of powdering practised also by the famous Prince de Ligne, who used to walk to and fro through a double line of servants, each of whom had a different shade of hair-powder, white, blue, yellow, and pink, to throw at his wig, which after this operation, exhibited what was considered to be the perfection of evenness aul colouring.

Kaunitz was exact and methodical in all his doings. In the morning and evening of every day he arranged his writing-table with the strictest symmetry, putting peas and pencils, piece by picce, paralled to each other; also, whilst dictating to his seeretary, he would frequently wipe the dust \from the vases, picture-frames, and chests in his room, Kivery evening he noted down on a paper all that he intended to do on the followingday. . . . . Every morning he awoke at nine o’clock, and began to-work with hissecretaries from eleven to twelve ; remaining all the while in bed, as his chamber was also his principal room of business. Even Joseph, when emperor, came to him there. MKauuitz very rarely read or wrote anything himself, but had always some

one to read to him, and dictated everything. Whilst listening or speaking, he sat stiff and immoveable. Hqually

stiff and erect was his gait, even in his cightieth year, His manner Of saluting was also very characteristic; it was scarcely more then a nod, his friends being at the same time acknowledged with a paternal smile, and all the rest with the air of a protector. Ife always spoke slowly and deliberately, looking as Charles V. used to do, either upwards or fixedly before him. He never under any circumstances betrayed, either by his gait or by his speech, any inward emotion, however strongly be might feci it. Many who lived with him for years have stated that, like Louis XLV., he had never been seen to laugh.

Though covered in, as it were, with an outward show of French foppery and affectation, this extraordinary man had in him a most substantial ground-work of sterling German earnestness and solidity. He hated all superficiality in busi- ness, and performed well and carefully whatsoever he under- took. He not only was capable of thorough-going and intense exertion, but the whole of his life was devoted in reality to deep thought and strenuously sustained work ; and all his domestic arrangements, his daily dict, and tender care for his health, were merely intended as means for maintaining in him that ease and freedom of mind which he conceived to be necessary for his graver purposes. '

Some curious traits are given us of the prince’s domestic habits, which may be noticed on account of their singularity. Ile kept a very great house in Vienna, but the company which he entertained were not allowed to interrupt his daily

He every day kept an open table, covers being laid in the earlier part of his career for twelve, afterwards for sixteen or eighteen guests, But as he used to send his invitations only on the same day, and very late, at an hour when most people had accepted elsewhere, it would sometimes happen that only a few personssat down withhim. . . . . The table was most exquisitely supplied ; but the guests, according to the statement of the English tourist Swinburne, were expected not’to touch certain particular dishes of the desert which were reserved for the prince’s own use. Swinburne asserts that, when he once neglected the warning which had been given on that score, Kaunitz sulked with him for several days. . . . . If the prince accepted an invitation in any other house, his host, whatever might be his rank, had to allow Kaunitz’s cook to supply the principal dishes of his master—who, in this respect, went so far as to have the wine, the bread, and even the water sent to him from his

own house. Every one submitted to these conditions, as otherwise Kaunitz would not come at all. This peculiarity was not exactly owing to a dread of being poisoned, but to his anxious care for his health, as he was always fearful lest he should eat anything that might disorder his stomach.

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the dog-days, he sometimes sat for a short time in an arm- chair in his garden, or walked a few steps from his residence to the royal palace, he always carefully covered his mouth with a handkerchief. His humour or infirmity in this respect was well understood and provided for by his imperial mistress. When he came to Maria Theresa, who had generally one or more windows open, and who, without any danger to hor health, could sit for hours in the strongest draught, all the windows were immediately closed as socn as “ the prince” was announced. Besides his dislike to fresh air, Kaunitz took no exercise, save in the shape of a game at billiards and a brief ride on horseback. His horsemanship was marked by his usual eccentricity. Every afternoon before dinner he rode three horses, each for the same number of minutes, in the riding-sehool, which in winter was lighted ap with « profusion of lamps. He kept horses from all parts of Hurope. Only in the very warmest whether he ventured to take a ride in a bosquet in-his palace-garden at Mariahilf. He bad different suits of clothes, regulated according to the tem- perature of the day. to prevent his catching cold. . . . . In all the rooms of his house, thermometers were hung, te regulate the heat of the stoves. . . . . But Kaunitz was never ill, and reached the ripe age of eighty-four years. If ever he was at all indisposed, he cured himself with an electuary which he had brought from Paris, and of which he had a new supply sent to him by every courier. With all this fastidious habit, we are told, no one ever understood better than Kaunitz did the art of making life pleasant to himself and to others; no one ever took such anxious care of his life. It seemed us if he thought that, with due caution, he might almost live for ever.. He never appears to have concerned himself about the final change which must some day come. Whatever could remind him of dying, was to be carefully kept in the background, Ali the persons usually about him were strictly forbidden to

Ife had not himself been afflicted with this disorder ; but he had been shocked by it in the case of the empress, His readers received from him in writing an earnest injunction to eschew the use of those two obnoxious words. The wags would have it that even the “ inoculation ™ of trees was net to be spoken of, because it reminded him of the inoculation of the small-pox. His birth-day also was never to be alluded to. When the referendary Von Binder, for fifty years bis friend and confidant, died, Xaverius Raidt, the prince's reader, expressed himself in this way: ‘“ Baron Binder is no longer to be found.” The prince, aficr some moments’ silence, replied: ‘Hst-i] mort? I! etait cependant assez vieux.” Binder was a year and a half younger than Kauunitz, To another of his readers, Secretary Harrer, at that time a man of sixty, he once said; Mais comment estil possible, que de jeunes gens, comme yous, oublient des, choses pareilles ?” The news of the death of Frederick the Great

of mind, told him that a courier had just arrived from Berlin at the Prussian ambassador’s with notifications of King Frederick William. Kaunitz sat for some time stiff and motionless in his arm-chair, shewing no sign of having under- stood the hint. At last he rose, walked slowly through the room, then sat down and said, raising his arms to heaven : ** Alas! when will such a king again enuoble the diadem ?” When the Emperor Joseph died, the valet returned to Kaunitz a document, which the emperor was to have signed, with the words: “The emperor signs no more.” The death of his sister, Countess Questenberg, Kaunitz only knew when he saw his heusehold in mourning. In like manner, |he once remained unacquainted with the recovery of one of his sons from severe illness, until the convalescent came iu person to call on him: Kaunita himself had never been to see him during his illness. ‘To an old aunt of his he once sent from his table one of her faverite dishes—four years after her death !

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MATRIMONIAL BILL OF EXCITANGE.

A merchani, in Jamaica, originally from London, having amassed a princely fortune in that island, concluded with himself that he could not be happy in the enjoyment of it unless he shared it with a woman of merit; and knowing nore that wou!d suit his fancy, he resolved to write to a worthy correspondent of his in London. He knew no other style than that which he usedin his trade ! therefore, treating affairs of love as he did his business, after giving his friend, in a letter, several commissions and reserving this for the last, he went on thus :—

“Ttem, seeing I have taken a resolution te marry, and

routine, or any way interfere with his personal comfort. ; that I do 9t find a suitable match for me here, do not fail

to send me per next ship bound hither, a yourg woman of the qualification and form following: as for portion I demand none ; let her be of an honest family, between twenty and twenty-five years of age, of middie stature, and well proportioned ; her face agreeable, temper mitd, character blameless, health good, and her constitution strong enough to bear the changes of the climate, that there may be no occasion to look out for a second, through lack of the first soon after she comes to hand, which must be provided against as much as possible, considering the great dangers of the sea. if she arrives and conditioned as abovesaid, with the present letter indorsed by you, or at least an attested copy thereof, that there may be no mistake or imposition, I hereby oblige and engage myself to satisfy the said letter by marrying the bearer at fifteen days’ sight. In witness whereof, I subscribe,” &e.

The London correspondent read over, reread, and again read the odd article which put the future spouse on the same footing with the bales he was to send to his friend; and after admiring the prudent exactness of the West Indian and his laconic style, in enumerating the qualifications which he insisted on, he endeavored to serve him to his mind. After

| eyes for the last time, and then closed them slowly; his! After the meal, whether at home or dining out, Kaunitz, many inquiries, he thought he had found a lady fit for his c ’ head declined ; a feeble sigh issued from his bosom, and al!) Would take from his pocket his famous apparatus for cleansing purpose In a young person of respectable family, but with other passes, which have been made to cost us much blood. wag over. This was on the 29th of September, at four his mouth, and with the greatest uaconcern, use it before the | no fortune, good humoured, and politely educated, well

'o’clock in the evening.

HONOUR AND COUKTESY.

whole company for at least a quarter of an hour, during which operation he made all sorts of disagreeable noises. This apparatus consisted of a complete and most varied set

‘shaped, and more than tolerably handsome. He made the | proposal to her as his friend had directed, and she, having

‘no subsistence but from a fretful old aunt who gave ber a

Captain de Dampierre, orderly-officer of General Bosquet, | of instruments ; as, for instance, several small looking-glasses, | great deal of uneasiness, accepted it. pulse, surmounting all obstacles, and elimbing with desperate returning in the evening from the place of disembarkation, ‘to examine the teeth back and front, linen rags, brushes, and ' activity the steepest precipices ; our allies in admirable line- lost his way and got near the Russian quarters. Being sur- other contrivances. Once, when he was preparing to do this the lady went on board the same, together with the bales of of-bottle, marched with their usual step, extinguishing the prised by a post of Cossacks, he suddenly turned in a ‘at the table of the French ambassador Baron Bretuil, the fire of the formidable position which they had to carry, with contrary direction, spurring his horse toa gallop, as did also Jatter said to his guests: ‘“Levons nouns, le prince vent larly with a certificate in due form, and endorsed by the cor-

A ship bound for Jamaica was then fitting out at Bristol ; | goods, being well provided with all vecossaries, and particu-

She was also included in the invoice, the last

difficulty in front rather than seeking to attack in flank. | shot, and Captain de Dampierre fell into the hands of the instruments in solitude; but from that time he never dined ‘article of which ran thus :—* Item, a maid, twenty-one years An heroic error, which inseribes glorious names upon the enemy. Being brought before a Russian general, he begged out again.

page oF history, but inseribes them upon the records of the him to inform the French advanced posts, that he was a

dead. A little episode, of which much has bcen said, ter-

minated the battle. It was the capture of the carriage of wight not be anxious about him. The Russian general, with him. His rooms and carriages were accordingly closed from |

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prisoner, but not wounded, that his family and his friends joyed fresh air; he was of opinion that it did not agree with duce.”

It isa singular thing respecting Kaunitz, that he never en-

| of age, of the quality, shape, and conditioned, 2s per order, las appears by the affidavits and certilicates she has to pro-

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Prince Meuschikoff. The Russian army was in retreat; the|a courtesy which we take pleasure in acknowledging, replied its intrusion ; and when, during the moet oppressive heat of exact a business man, as the future husband, were au ubstract

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