I-IASZARIYS

G A 7. ltL'I"l‘ls), OCTOBER. 25.

LII"l£ IS A POWDER MILL.

Dickens thus describes a visit to the pow» der inills of Hounslow, near London:

In this silent region, amid whose ninety- geyen work-places no human voice ever breaks upon the ear, and where, indeed, no hutnan form is seen, except in the isolated house is which his allotted task is perform- ed, there are upwards of two hundred and fifty workmen employed. They are a pc- culiiir race ; not, of course, by natitre, most cases, but by the habit of years. _ '1'. circumstances of tiioiiientary destruction in which they live, added to the most stringent and necessary regulations, have snlidtied their minds and feelings to the condition of their hire. 'l‘hei-o is seldom any need to‘ enforce these regulations. Some terrific ex- plositill here, or in works of a siiiiilar kind elsewhero-, leaves a ﬁxed mark in their me- movies, iind acts as it constant warning. Here no shadow of a practical _joke or caper of animal spirits ever ti anspircs-—no \\’llll(:l.~‘!ll, no chatting or slang.

A luiigli is never heard; it sinile seldom seen. Even the work is ctirried on by the men with as few words as possible, and these tittered in a low tone. Not that any body fancies that mere sound will aivnkeii the spirit ofconibtistion, or cuiise iin explo- sion to take place, but that their ti-clings are always kept subdued. If one man wish- es to cotnmuiiicate one thing to fin-illltrl‘, or ask for any thing at a short distance, he is

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Moitssot¢s.—Several Mormons, men and women, numbering, it is said, nearly a hun- dred, are now in Paris. They profess to be there to make proselytes, but, '

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i doubting their success in this mission, they

apply themselves subsidiarily to commercial pursuits, and are buying Parisian nic - nacks against floitr which they propose to ship from their colony.

Passi:itvn'ioN or S-roNs.—Woikmen are being employed to apply to all the exterior

" walls of the Houses of Parliament the solu-

tion suggested by Lord Lyndhurst for stop- ping the decay of the stone. For the Louvre and Notrc Dame, at Paris, a pre- paration of silicate of potash has been used with success to prevent the decay of the stone-work ; its cost is about 30 cents the square yard.

Tris POETICAI. AND Tits Lirt-:R.u..—Oiice in a wood, Mrs. VVoi-dswortli and ii laiily were talking, when the stock-dove was coo- ing. A farmer's wife coming by, said to herself, “ O, I do like stock-doves.” Mrs. \Vortlsworth, in all her cntliusiasni for \\'ordsworth’s poetry, and remeinlieiing his own beautiful address to the stock-dove, took the old woman to llt‘l' lieai-t. “ lint,” t(30||lln|lt‘(l the woinan, “ some like ’eiii in a pie ; for my part, there's nothing like ’cin stewed in onions.”

Btu. or I“.'tRE.—.‘\ letter front St. Peters-

ncvcr permitted to shout or call out. There is a particular reason for this last rcgtila- tion. Atiiid all this silt-net-, \\r'll4'llt.‘\'L‘l' ti shout does occur, every body knows that sortie iintnincnt danger is expected the next moment, and till rush away lieadloiig froiii the dit-ection of the shout. As to running toward it to olli-r tiny assistance, as corti- moi in ltll cases, it is tlioioug!ily|understood that non‘ can he tilliirdetl. An llCIfltlt.‘l;l

here is iiiiltiedintc and beyond renietly.

It" tlit- slioutiiig lie coiitiiiticd for scint- tiinc—-i'-ir a man inight In: (lI‘t)Wll(‘tl in river—- that tnight catise one or two of tin-

boldtrst to rcttirti; but this would he ti very rare ot:t:ori't~iit-e. It is by no tnczzns to ho inl't-rrctl that tiie incti are selﬁsh and inscii.<i- blc tti the perils of ciii:li other; on the con- trary, thcy have the liigliest COIl§l(l(.'l‘illlttIl for each other, as well as for their entplo_y- ers, and think of the danger to the lives ot others, and ofpropertv at stake, at all times and more especially in the more daugeroi s houses. The proprietors of the vtirioiis gunpowder mills all display the same con- sideration for each other, and whenever any improvement tending to lessen danger is made by one, it is immediately coniiniini- cated to all others. The wages ot the men are good, and the hours very short. No artiﬁcial lights are ever used in the wor . They leave the mills at half’-past three in the afternoon, winter and summer. 0-3-2-

FRAHCISCAN Cot.i.sas.—The corner- stone of a Roman Catholic Collage was

laid on Tuesday, at Allegliany, Cattarau-.

gas county. New ork; the institution to

be under the charge of five Franciscans,»

three of whom have already arrived from Rome, and the first said to have emigrated to this country since the year Nils.

Bna Snor in A Liov.—'I‘hc Portland Jdccrtisrr says, that Miss Pliilbrick, a lady residing in Piscatsquis country,iiuving been annoys by bears, set a tr p or them. The morning after the trap was set, it had disappeared, and a trail was observed show- in which way it had one. Miss Phil- brick procured her riﬂe and started in par- suit, and _was not long in overtaking Bruin with all his paraphernalia. A shot from the riﬂe soon terminated his existence, and Miss Philbrick had the satisfaction of re- ceiving a good rice for the " ch” in tid- dition to the bounty allowed by the State.

Ani'ritMsric.—An Irish journal, in an earnest article on the sdtilteration of wliis- key, says:

" Poisonous adulteration of whiskey was never practised to such an extent as at pre- sent by the admixture of one-third spirits, one-third aquafortis, one-third vitriol, and one-third water! This is the sort generally

burg gives the following bill ol fiirc of the grand ditiner given by the Czar to 200,000 lpt-tisrints at the gates of Moscow:—-‘.240 lsliecp roastctl whole, 450 tarts, 528,800

‘litres of hrotli, 480 dishes of jelly, 7200'

ifotvls, I000 ttiikt-ys, I000 dttcks, 21,000

iitivvs of \\'l|llt'. bread, lltillli loaves of broivti ,lii-eatl, lltillf) liiiiiis, 46,000 apples, 40,000 jpcars, 46,000 pltiins, 4000 pails of beer, ~l0(l0 pails of Inctitl, ilﬁtlll pails of ivliite aiitl tl'(‘tl wine. At the head ofevi-i'y table there iv.-is n sltecp iozisti-tl wliole, the liortis gill, .i:~tl the llti>t: tipped tvitli silver. All the

..i:its iterc liiiiig upon (‘liiisttnns trees.

Tut; i"Rt;:vt'tt lC\tri;tioti.—-Tlie l‘Il)l[tt‘l't)l‘ and the litiiptt->24 oft|it- l"it~ncli, it tippcars, lspciit ii late Stintltiy at BiI_\tillllt! in it \V:l_\’ jtliat would not t-econcile the.-e two tli.-'tin- iguisltetl intliiitliials to the applause of the lrt.-ligious Cltlssci of England. They went lto a bull ﬁght. Three bulls were slain,and ‘lllt? were tortured with heated weapons. 'l‘liey rushed from their den, they went bounding round the ring, they pawcd the earth with great fury, the people clieercd, and the Emperor and Empress remained to the last.

Lsncs i\lit.t..—'I‘he largest ﬂouring cs- tablishment iii the world, it is said, will he in Richmond, Va. It will be eleven stories high when cotntlcted.

Tits rii.i. TRADE Who could dreatn ofthe magnitude ot'.sticlt an undrrtsltiiig asthc mitiiut‘ac- titre of s Purgtitive Pill iissuines when it t-ouies

itito general use. And how painfully do the fol- 5lowing numbers speak of the amount of huinao

sic ness and siitfering, that that little inor.-i-l int n trcmedy goes forth to t-oinhat and subdue. l)tt. J. ‘.C.Avrit of Lonell, Hilnufacturesin h it laboratory , forty grnss per diem of his Calliarlic Pills, [throughout the year, This is eight boxes a min- ute or one dose I second. We thus find over 43, 000 persons swallow this pill every day, or L296, 000 a month E Physicians. think of tliatl-13,000 patients a day who seek relief from the medical lskill of one innit. Surely that man should be. as the is in this case one of the first intelligence and of the highest charscter.—Pai'n.ri.'il1e Courier.

A .\lti.initii MIt'rrtiiiss.—'I‘lie ex-King Louis ofﬂsvsris, who recently attained his 70th year, was, a few days ago, waited on at his cliatcau at Ludwitrholts, in the Pslstinsts. by a deputst Ut- from Strasburg, in which place he was both. who piiid their respects to him out the oecii.-ion. The King received them most kindly, promised to visit their city,snd related to them a curious circtinistance. At the time of his birth, in August 1786. his father, who was then only Prince ties -Deux Pants, commanded the Alsace regiment in the service of France, which was in the Garrison st Strsshurg ; and a feiv days after the birth, he was astonished to see that all his grsnadisrs had cut oﬂ'thcir boards and mousttiches. On inquiry why they had done so. one oftlie men stepped forward and said they had determined to beg his acceptance of a velvet mattress for the newly born prince, and that they stuﬂiid it with their

tended in drums to the public.” So that Irish whiskey is composed of four-thirds.

beards and inoustscliss. "I it vs the mattress still," crisd tlis King. “and will show it to yeti.” The tnsttrsso was produced, and the King added, "I do not think there is in the world s w ich sun be called siois strictly military than that."

THE . LEGION OF HONOUR.

Our readers have not, erbsps, been able to form any precise idea of t to nature of the ho- nour recently conferred, with Her Majesty's sanction, by the Emperor of the French, upon certain otlicers, non-commissioned otlicsrs. and

rivates oi the British army. We now, there- ore, lay before them it brief account of the tillic order of the Legioii of Honour.

in the yettr 1802, Napoleon, then first Con-

sul for life, contcnipltitiii his elevation to the Empire, betliought hinise f of creating a deco- {ration which, by bespnngling his adherents,‘ woul draw them tuorc compactly round his triumphal car. Cainbaceres was summoned ; jtbe idea of the Legion of Honour was coni_mu- .nicatcd to him, and the grand chamber-lain_of

course acquiesced. A council was convened with i all the due ceremony and promptittide, and the

grand plan laid before the members. mostly all of whom, with the exception of Mongc and one- or two more civilians, were military men limit I ;up in grade, ﬂushed with the success of the, battle-field, and whose t-olfcrs were well gar-i nishcd by booty and by the state. The Enipe-l ror‘s prclirninairc or opening speech was short . btit, as usual, at! hot, to the purpose, and may’ ie given in substance thus: ‘ For more than ‘ two lustrcs, the French tt|‘ll)lt'S, following_ their generals and their eagles, have been victori- ‘ous, covering tlienisclves with honour, antl ‘exciting the itdniiriition of the \\ orl-l. Promo- tion has been rapid in t-wry rllllh, and the private soldier may now look forward to be one day it gviieral. But nli t-tiiinot bectinio ge- nerals, althougli all may aspire to distinction. iA distinction of honour is therefore become ‘iieccssary, to be worn alike by the soldier and the civilian, thus eoinprii-ing in one large fztniily the whole Frciicli nation. 'l‘liis dis- tinction is the one I iropose—" 'l'ns Iiiit‘-l0.\' or llt‘.\‘ot‘ii"-—ivl.icli is t t-stincd to for surpass, in lcxploits and glory, the by-goiic decorations of‘

sll e ’ llc ceased, and ii gent-riil (llS(.‘llr‘§lt)tI , lfolloivtdfiiiit wholly in favour ol' the proj--ct: ifor altltougli nitiny had been previotii~ly ,«,;:iine<l over by those little lilaiidisliinents, and cu_iolo-1 ries ol the iioirccs of the Ttiilorics, and their, ftisciit.~itin,«; Josephine, still the great plan lllt‘l‘ \vit‘.i t~t'lllt'. opposition, and the for niiil ug-iin.~t‘ were liatitilyiiig their opinions with each titltcr. wlien .\':ipoli~on ordcrctl Cittiiliat-cres to I‘t_':lIl I the liltlll cliitisr ol the .l‘.cport. containing the; einoltiiiictits—!":"'!.:ant rut.-iiit/—:itt:iclietl ti each grade. All was now silence: the oppos- tit-ii tit l|ltl‘t‘ t-ctisctl; and ti legisltitivti decree’ soon prochiitiit.-d the adoption of the plan ; and l speedily tiftcrtvitrds a gorgeous ccrctnony tookl pace in tho (Tlmiiips do hlttrs, * tliroivingz.’ llsl thc liistoriuns of the titties say, ‘ an nureola of; glory over the inauguration of the first distri- i l-llll0lI of the decorations of the nobler order :' ' but whit-.h tiureola did not prevent i\lad-.iinc do Staél from thus addressing one of the decorated: ‘ Ah! jc vois—vcus étes un des honorés !‘—- pronounccd tIésIiorturés—fti. which jcu dc mots she was ordered to leave France, and remained many, many years in exile.

The Legion of Honour was therefore founded as it distiiictinn, not only for military services, but likewise for civil services rcndcrc to sci- ence, literature, art and administration. Even when the Empire fell, the Bourbons preserved the _decoriitiou, but clian ed the mode of con- ferring it, and substitute the t-lﬁgy of Henry I . for Napoleon's. Since 1830, many changes have taken place in the manner of taking the

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it runs thus: ‘ I swear fidelity to the Emperor ,.\_'apoleon ill, iuid obedience to the constitu- tionnl cliarter,and to the laws of the kingdom.’ lithe orders comprises the following grades:— tbrnnd Cross, lirst called ‘ Grand Eagle;’ Grand =0ﬂiccr: ‘ominttnder, tiist named ‘ Command- ‘ant ;‘ Oﬂicer; and Clieialiur, ﬁrst named ‘ Le- gionnaire.’ The first distribution, in 1802, comprised 6772 military men and 951 civilians, making it. total of 7723 on that memorable diiy. _Were the statutes of the order strictly followed, it would require twenty years‘ good iind loyal service for either a civilian or a military niitii —the hitter in time of poace-- to be udinitted ti iohevﬂlierz but any extraordinary act performed y 8 civilian, any useful object invented by it superior mind, any action d'ecIat—bold feat. of llflDl_—lICllIc\'8(I by a soldier while campaign- ing. is I_nsts_ntly rewarded by the decoration, or promotion in the order, if the person be already decorntt-d_. in war time, tlii-rt-fort-, no number of years is re utrt-tl to obtain the decoration; and this implies it wise foresight, as it gives hopes to the recruit, and leads the oﬂiccr on to great exploits. lho revenues of the order of the Legion of Honour amount to eight million franccs, or L-320.000 sterling; two-thirds of which are absorbed by the administration of tits order, and the annual sums or traitemcrits paid to its various members. Those sums are as follows : -‘The Grand Crosses and Grand Oﬂicers re- ceive annually 5000 francs; Commanders, 2000; Oﬂicers, 1000; Chevaliers, 250; but such an- nutil sums have been paid since the your 1815 only to such as have received the decoration

oath on being decorated ; but as it now stands, '

while private soldiers or non-commissioned ﬂicors.

A this moral feature of th

T ttiblishiuents—attaclicd to and sit - for young ladies, daughters of oiliii§:.teg,_b-7": oﬁccrs: the private soldier IlL'\'t‘I‘ being ,,“5::‘ ed insrr ‘during the term of his seven y-em. service, an css his wife occu llt'8 some em 1 meat in the regiment, such as laundresisj or cunliniere, or brings iiiia ti fortuno of ab," L.l2 a year. Those educational eﬁlllllllﬂliluent in which the instruction communicated is of.’ rat-class order, are St. Denis, near p,,,.;,. . branch in the line Barbctte, at Paris- and A A other branch at the Logos, near St. tliermaini .ln :ill three there are about 900 or 1000 P“ nu‘. tint out of thc t'i9(l contained in the [mp£,.,:i ltouso at St. Denis, 400 pity L.40a year { board, education, &c.; btit all the young u ‘(it belonging to the other O8ll|lJllIllll.l€lIl}d ii,” brou lit up therein gratuitously '1‘|.eim ,, rial louse at St. Denis is administered bp I lady-superintendent, who has under her ordgr‘ six ladies (dignituirrs), twelve ladies oftlio firs: eliiss, twenty novices, and many ettndidtites for tlie noviciato. All these ladies, exec g “,0 ,,o_ vices, wear the decoration o the l:t‘gl0n of Honour on the left breast; and uiost beconiin it: is over their jet-black attire. The mg brancli-cstablislinients are adiuinistered b re- ltgiotis ladies belonging to the spiritual order -ti.

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(t'on,«:régaliori) of the Mére-de-l)it

"liu Legion of Honour, as well as all the cstahlisliincnts depending upon it, is under the ininicdiato control and administration of 3 iiiiirslial of France, who has the title of Grand Ulitincellor; and the Imreainr, or oﬂiees.tirc situ. atcd in one of the most beautiful arts at Paris, not far from the legislature c inmben 'l‘lie revenue of the order is kept up by the" interest on its original cndotvincnt, and 3 small monthly percentage upon the pay of every ofiiccr in the army antl iiitvy. Altogether it is an order which does honour to its gt-eai founder, and to the great nation for which it was fotiii c .

'l‘ht-re are two other orders of the kind in Frititt-c : the Royal Military ()rdcr of St. Louis founded by Louis xiv. in lt'i93 ; and the do,’ of ;\lilititry Mt-rii, ereitteil by Louis X ., in i731), for the rcwiir of olliccrs professing the Prott-stunt religion. 'l'ht-st- were siipp,-,.5,:cd during the great revolution, atitl i‘c~cstalilisl;ed on the return of the Ilotirlions in 1815: burn: the rcvoltitioii ol'Jnl_v lS.'3ll, they fell into «it-stivttide, nltliotigli not uliolislit-d by it-giglu. tivc cizzictiiit-nt ; and the l.t-gioii of llonotir, the

dt~eor:i:ioiis of whit-li have l)t't'll eonfcraed upon

it portion ofour army, is, ll‘.tL'llL':lll_)‘, the only t-xistin,-_; order.

Mr. Smith O'Brien had, by an honorably Slll)llllt'8l0ll to the pt-iialty adjudged hiin.gained the respect of muitv who severely censured his politictil career. If his collt-ungt-ti in rebellion and companions in exile broke their permitted furlough. and violated pliglitcd good faith, Siuitli O'Brien, at least. lionotirnbly kept his word, and, scornin to escape the punisliaient of his iolitieul inaﬁvertcnce by it dishonorable llight, ie bore his captivity with dignity and honour. lie must either wear his chains until death, or cast them oﬂ at the indulgence of that clemency that sometimes sets the prisoner free. Accordingly, while from time to time we licnrd of one and another escape from the bounds of British jurisdiction, Smith O'Brien availed himself of no such dishonourablo meant to shuflle oil’ the penalty of his ollencc. Ho endured his punishment, until the hand that nn‘posed the satisfaction declared itself satis- tit- , and removed the burden from the priso-

r. And now Mr. Smith O'Brien once more re- visits the scenes of his childhood,—his family fireside, his devoted people, the land that rocked itself convulsively at his hands. [is revisits it, not as an agitator once more let loose; not as the restored leader once more recognised and followed, and too ready to accept the recognition. In no such spirit does this exile revisit his fatherluiid. He returns s wiser and it better man ; lic‘declines the over- tures ofa still iiiisttiken people and clor . He proposes to himself a career more bent-girl to is country, to his family. and to himself; and settles down in sober earnest to more useful pursuits, addressing himself to the moral and social improvement of the people, and avoiding it too hasty interference in matters of a politi- cal niituro \'t-.ry dilferent. however, is the conduct of John Frost. The royal act of grace, in his behalf, meets with quite another kind of ac- ltnowlcdgtnont at his hands. He sails up the Avon amid the cheers of his former col- leagues, and his first landing seems to revive the embers of the Chsrtist sedition. John Frost no sooner feels himself again free on British ground than he resumes his old prac- tices, likes “Ticket-of-leave man,” who, y instinct, returns to his former mode of life. He is welcomed andfclcd: and he feels himself ﬂattered. The "Charter" again becomes a question, rind John Frost, its hero, saint and martyr. Lengtlicned absence from home, and stem discipline abroad, have taught him no- thing; for at the earliest opportunit , lis lun ss again into the sums vortsx of po iticsl

d ' ' . u yﬁumu "um" ‘,dm‘im2°;::::i;::IiI:.y ls‘ tgioti. sad is quite at home in his rssuiiisd