The Express. — London, England, 1857-07-18 00:00:00

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The tapress.` Loom Wady paper, ma be al Os Oft% 11, bouverbwetresl. WT.* Medi es the file a pablisatlis. 11 AAAAAA WS. Tao Urns", VICTIMS !—THS SOT LID SECOND 71401. .Yll TIII 0111ASELL—Cominkis st T. TRITCIOIni. Twomn's. LIVING TOO FIST. -AM ran TIMP/Iff. ■t O. L -Dem son at Indimo%O. SUBMIT. TM Immo. IL TROT ATORIA Mem. Rao Spuire% Contr. I 4 C. Donald Wotan Ion& LAAAA—Aad THE BKLIOARA' PRAIA. Kr. Illasms CAA.; MIN Oter.—O.narusera II T. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Sr Dor—aasaa NIL 0a...* Attonnum. ILL U. tooroaar—lanioa Ob. G. iftorroo. 10a. LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 18. WAYBA regretted that the noble 41thelstane could not share in the goof cheer at his own tyke wake. Wiser men than Wamba may regret that BELANGER cannot sing the ordering of his own Amend. The Esterann, in his eagerness to do honour to the national poet, announced, before the breath was well out of the old man's body, that the funeral expenses should be defrayed out of the civil list. The imperial undertaker issued strict orders at the same time that none who were not specially invited should presume to follow tho poet to his grave. The ceremony was harried over ere twenty four hours had been allowed to elapse, and the streets were lined by powerful detachments of troops as the funeral cort4ge passed along them. Under pretence of doing honour to BEItABOES, his body was sequestrated from those whom he loved and sympathised with in life, and escorted to the grave by the representatives of those dames who had writhed under his satire. The day for such marvels has gone by, or one might have ex pected the corpse to bunt ita cerement', and to bare .arched away—a spectral figlia del rerposerwre—froni the uncongenial entourage. We lave no doubt that the lively interest in BEILANGER oxpromed by the R 111.11,8 was perfectly sincere. We have no doubt that the Eneana—who, though an epicurean, is a tasteful one—appreciates many of the finest features of BELA:10E1'8 genius. But a blind man might see that, under the pretext of paying the Poet public honours, a desperate effort has been made to get him out of the way as quickly and as quietly as possible. The respect paid to his corpse was of the kind that Faistaf paid to the dead body of Prrey. He was complimented to the grave as Dr. Bartok is com plimented out of the room in the Barkers di Sirigha. The courtiers who accompanied his hearse returned to the Tuileries thankful no doubt that their civilities had soothed his shade and pre vented it from stirring up an hneate. The EMPEROR probably gave a deep sigh, expressive of unutterable relief, on finding that he had succeeded in burying his perilous dead out of his sight. The public funeral et BZIASOII is one of those homages which vies pays to virtue. The feigned grief of the officials over the corpse of 111xn.i:scen resembles the fulsome compliments with which the Indian hunter seeks to soothe the irate ghost of the bear he has slain. But the genial, sincere, child-hearted, deep thmighted, independent poet has been followed to the grave by the hearts of all the true men and women of Europe; that is his real pompes /smarm. His songs ring in the ears, his thoughts burn in the hearts of millions of the best spirits of France ; that will be his true monument. " Let me write the songs of a nation," said a great English statesman, " and let who will write the laws." Not one of the least guarantees that the spirit of liberty will some day reawaken in France is the universal diffusion and appreciation of the songs of Bzaanoza. IT is seldom that much practical good arise' from public conference' of members of Parliament to dis cuss a course of policy, rather than the expediency of some specific party move. When • leader of Government, or of Opposition, assemble' his forces on the eve of a critical division, and tells them in succinct but stirring phrases that the fate of Eog. land, the welfare of their party depends upon their holding together, " regardless of minor differences, in the present crisis," he merely adopts the mode of =Teasing for Parliamentary votes which custom ham long sanctioned, and experience proved to be the most effectual for its purpose. He never thinks of arguing on such an occasion the specific merits of the question at issue, nor do his followers expect him to do so. An incorrigibly crotchety or conceited fellow, who plumes himself on being what be calls " per feetlyindepsndent " because he represents his father's tenantry in an out-of-the-way county, or his own puree in a much-in-the-way borough—such a man may try to get up a discussion on the old point of Ishmaelitish belief, that every man ought to do what seemeth right in his own eyes. But in the main, people understand when a meeting is talked of at Lad Daisy's, or at the official residence of the nun LORD of the TRZASURT, in Downing-street, that the entertainment is to consist of a solo, with a few orchestral accompaniments ; and that all at tempts to improvise or interpolate dramatis pumps requiring a variety of distinct peellisms. is mere impertinence and labour in vain. It is quits mother affair when a number of bewildered gentle men, finding no concert, or power of concert, amongst 0101111111110 on some interesting subject, and having ms reesguised leader to whom they can refer for cabals owl direction, agree to resort to a tavern, eall in the madensing power of the reporters, and hope to Mile thereby at some definite conclusion. In aims OM eat of ten the legislative sheep without a abspberd only make their unhappy state more obvious and ler commiserable by prematurely cubing into public and into print. The tactics of Parliamentary warfare, mach like other tidies, require • reasonable spirit of merle in the presence of an adversary ; and • pub lic deliberation about what is to be, too ranch re semblas an invitation to the foe to look through your camp, survey your magazines, and take deck et year wounded, and mining. There is, beside this, the of would-be leaden, and the temptation to for the make at tonal( the wave of yew IL rivalry -1n out-bid THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1857. BERANOER. tufty, which tends to distract attention and to perplex counsels previously too much confounded. Nothing, in a word, could have been less promising than a meeting of members of Parliament, convened by pablic advertisement, at the King's Arms, Old Paimre-yard. Nevertheless, we must own, and we do so with peat eatisfaction, that the meeting of the Pali*. misettary friends of Jewish emancipation on Thurs• ow proved a signal exception to the rule. We do mil mean to say that some loose talk and random den& may not be traced in the report we pub liskilsewhat took place. But the general tenor of dee proceedings was eminently practical and wise. Whenever a precipitate step was suggested, more than one of those present were prompt to point out its true character, and to distinguish it from that which had preceded it, and from which it was illogically de duced as necessary. The result was the agreement that Mr. Diummg's amendment shall only be resorted to in ease the course recommended by Lord Joe"; Rumex'. should fail. Failure in the House of Lords wee indeed antici pated by many ; and we are not prepared to say that we see any mean for believing that the obstinacy of the Peers will be less during the first week of August than it was in the first week of July. Bat on all sides it was felt that the hands of the advocates of self-asserting privilege would be strengthened by al reiteration of their lordships refusal to accede to the claims of justice; and the more timid friends of statutable redress were naturally glad of any alternative that held out a hope, however faint, of accom plishing by an Act of Parliament what must otherwise be attained by the dernier ressort of a resolution. It does net seem to have occurred to any of the gentlemen assembled at the King's Arms that difficulties might arise in the Commons, which, at the present period of the session, might actually prove insurmountable. The noble Member fur London having given notice of his intention to move for leave to bring in a Bill last night, to extend the provisions of the Act to the cue of Peers and Members of Parliament, which enables persons to be sworn in the manner most binding on their con sciences, everybody took for granted that facilities would be afforded by Government to enable him to do so. Great was consequently the surprise and disappointment when Lord PALIMRSTON declared that he could not undertake to give a day for the consideration of the proposed Bill. Opportunities will of course arise, in going into Committee of Sup ply, when Lord Jowl, thus driven to the wall, may insist upon his right. But these opportunities may come too late for practical nee, so far as the second appeal to the House of Lords is concerned. The Peers have a standing order against entertaining any Bill that does not come up to them from the Commons by this 24th of July ; and, with a numerous and fanatical opposition, it is but too probable that this objection of form will not be waived in order to allow a measure so distasteful to be brought forward. Under these circumstances, it is plain that the responsibi lity of forcing matters to extremity has now been assumed by the Passtisa. When he assumed the post of leader on a question which for many years Lord ions litlitSELL had honourably made his own, the latter cheerfully and eloquently repudiated all feeling of jealousy, and volunteered to tight in the ranks which he had previously led. But when the campaign was over and the battle lost by the Minister, Lord JOIIN rightfully and gallantly came forward to resume the post of prominence, and said—You have not succeeded—let me once more try. But Lord PALMERSTON does not appear to relish the appeal. The state of public business will not admit of hie giving up even a single day. The hope in Lord HARZOWET'S conversion to toleration has failed, and the shaming of Lord SuArresoolty has proved delusive; the latest episcopal creations have served bat to swell the hosts of bigotry and sectarian wrong; yet Lord PALM ER4TON refuses a few hours to a friendly and constitutional discussion of the question, and declares that, for his own part, he hoe nothing to propose instead. Can matters rest there ? We think not. THE complaint of the representatives of 3,000 Bengal officers and 600 widows, authenticated by the opinions of actuaries and of counsel of ihe highest eminence, as given in the pamphlets, newspaper statements, and memorials to the India Boards and to Parliament, of the managers in England, is as follows : In 1811 the India Company proposed conditions for the establishment of a Widows' Fund in the Bengal Army, pledging the Company to support the Fund on those conditions bring agreed to. The terms and arrangements were precisely those of the Madras and Bombs , Funds, already exist ing. In 1823 the Directors desired to combine other objects with that of pensioning widows, in order to relieve themselves of troublesome business in connexion with the passage-money and allowances of sick subalterns, returning home on furlough. On this °erasion the Madras and Bombay regu lations were made compulsory on the Bengal officers as a condition of amistanee from the Company; and every officer joining the service was obliged to become a member of the institution. In 1824, the Bengal General Military Fund was thus established on the Company's terms, and it was formally approved by the Court of Directors, in all its particulars, in 1826. The pledge of the Court, thus formally announced, was this. The Court declared itself bound by the same terms which existed in the other two presidencies, viz., that the subeeriptions of all the officers in the Bengal Army should be deducted from their pay ; that the Company would " maim advances to the agents of the Fund in England, • the same terms as are allowed to other Indium be& tutions, viz., 2s. 4d. per Sicca Rupee r and that the rate of " eight per cent. intern* en the lesnl fuls balances of the Fund paid into the tawny,' should be allowed. (We quote from Se letter of the Directors, dated August 30th, 1826, in reply to the announcement of the Supreme Govern ment, that the Bengal Fund was established according to the orders of the Board.) At that time, and up to 1836, the Sicea Rupee formed the currency in Bengal, while the Madras Rupee cir culated elsewhere. The Siva Rupee contained 176 grains of standard silver, and was worth one-six teenth more than the Madras Rupee. The Court, however, allowed 2s. 3d. per Madras Rupee ; and the Sieca Rupee should, at that rate, have been computed at 2s. 41d. and not 2s. 4d. This disproportion (which is the least item in the list of complaints) occasioned a difference in the treatment of the Ben gal and Madras Funds amounting to 61,7921. during the period in dispute, from 1824 to 1833. Nothing would have been heard of this original miscalcula tion, however, if the Company had fulfilled their en gagements on their own terms of 2s. 4d. per Bicca Rupee. For some years they charged the Indisa Fonds five per cent. interest on the balance of advances made in Europe. This was done till 1832, when the Company changed their method, in a way which involved a most serious mention from their terms. There ware then above 2,000 subscribers to the Fund ; in that year 185 widows drew pensiono. ad above 60 Ask cams had punermasney, and 88 sick subalterns had aid. Though. of the coat was borne by the subscribers, the Di rectors became alarmed at the magnitude of the grants of that year, and they gave intimation to the Trutt-es of the Funds of the following alterations in the - _ management at home. They declared that they would do nothing which should have the effect of reducing the rate of pensions, or of throwing on the Trustees the charge and risk of effecting remittances; but they announced that the sums requiredin England for the use of the several Funds should thenceforth be advanced, " repayable in India at 12 months' date, and at 11.11 d. per Sicca Rupee, that being full all high as could be realised by a consignment of bullion." They added, " And we desire that the difference between the number of Rupees reimbursed to you under this arrangement, and that which would have been reimbursed if the present rate of exchange had been continued to be observed, be annually credited to the Funds as a (lunation from the Com .. The Managers understood this to mean simply that the amount of money paid woald be the same under the new method u before, a certain portion of it being presented to the public eye as a gift. There are two remarks, however, to be made on the transaction. First, the Company continued to charge 5 per cent. on its advances, as before, notwithstanding that such interest was already charged on the value of the Rupee. The loss from this double charge—amounting to considerably more than 100,0001. in the Bengal case--is,however, shared by the Madras and Bombay Funds, and is not, therefore, one of the special grievances of the Bengal managers. The other in cident connected with this announcement of 1832 ... constitutes the specielease of the Bengal subscribers. The margin of the despatch just quoted from con tains a small note, apparently inserted by the finan cial officials at the India-house for the information of the Government in India. How such a piece of information could have left Lead( nhall-strcet with _ out being appreciated by the gentlemen of the Board, or received at Calcutta without inducing even a remonstrance, remains to be explained. The note wee this: The advances on account of the Madras and Bombay Fonds are made at 2e. 3d. per Rupee, or, deducting interest, 2a. 2.323 d. , but as the intrinsic value of these is leas than the Sic,. Rupee by 1 . 426 d., it followe that the advances to than Funds at 2.. 3d. per Rupee are more favourable than the edvances to the Bengal Fund. For many years the existence of this note was unknown to the Managers of the Bengal Fund, and the losses occasioned by this bre►ch of pledges about uniform treatment of the three Funds, went on seen- mutating in the dark—known at the India-house, of oourse, as this note testifies, but concealed from the Trustees in India, who had no means of tracking the mischief. Further, in 1838, the Company's new Rupee, of 165 grains, equal to the former Madras Rupee, became current throughout India, the Sicca Rupee remaining only in the Company's accounts with the Bengal Fund. But the Company failed to credit the Bengal Fund, as it alway, did the Madras, with 2s. 3d. the Rupee of 165 grains, and continued the old disproportion when the Madras Rupee bad superseded the Sicca in Bengal. This was so patent a fact, that the Company has rectified this item of its accounts since 1853 ; but for the loss in the in ternal, from 1830 to 1853, no reparation has been made. There is one more item. The Court, we have seen, promised 8 per cent. interest in India on the invested capital of the Fund. This has been so managed as that two or three months' interest has been lost in this manner to the Fund on every periodical payment: Officers' subscriptions were deducted from their pay by Government, but the pay has invariably been ware weeks in effete; and then there was the further iday of the deductions being acknowledged and mounted for at the Calcutta Treasury, during the ,bole of which time the Government was holding dis money which should have been obtaining interest behalf of the Fund. 'The loss from this cause is computed at 25,000 rupees a year. So long ago as 1854 the loss by exchanges was 128,0001., and there have been large additions since. It is being very moderate—supposing the ease to be proved—to im pute the present deficiency of the Fund to the Com pany. The deficiency was nearly half-a-million when first fully exposed, and before the pensions were reduced and the subscriptions increased. It appears to be now set down practically as about 200,0001. Every Actuary, tatting all privations of interest into the account, would make it a good deal more ; and it may be easily conceived that the re presentatives of the 3,000 officers who are now over charged to the amount of 25 per cent. in their com pulsory subscriptions, and the 600 widows who are mulcted in ten per cent. of their allowances on account of the half-million which the Company have put into their own treasury instead of that of the Fund, are not likely to be overwhelmed with grati tude at the promise, so patronisingly announced by Mr. Vearros Eistrn, that if the Fund is still in ad versity at the end of two years, the Directors will see what they can do in an eleemosynary way, if mire beforehand of being properly thanked. These facts being before the public, in a series of statements dating from 1834 onwards, it seems strange that any members of the other Funds should conclude, without inquiry, that the adversity of the Bengal institution mast be owing to mis management, and that the subscribers and pen sioners ought to be thankful to the Court for the tender mercies it promises. There were some mistakes, as is usual in such concerns. The first batch of widows prior to 1824 was paid (under the express sanction of the India House, however,) too high a rate of pension ; and there were losses through the dishonesty of a secretary, many years ago ; but these mischiefs were almost too small for notice in comparison with the deficiencies caused by the financial devices in use in Leadenhall-street, and the reces sion of the Court from its own terms—from its ex press condition of equality among the three Funds. Ms greatest folly chargeable upon the Bengal nougers seems to be their faith in the Court, and the unsuspecting way in which they accepted the Directors' management of the exchanges ; and, ' without proof, no one has a right to charge them with more. They have openly and perseveringly told their tale, and have made every imaginable effort to obtain an inquiry into it. If they are wrong, they might have been exposed or set right long ago ; and if the Company do not accept the challenge to inquiry by a Committee of Parliament, after having refused every method which involved leas publicity, they mast expect that public opinion will pronounce judgment by default. Meantime, what the Bengal officers wish to make understood is that they desire no alms, but only jus tice. That they should be visited with unconsidered censure, while their plea is uncontradicted in its par ticulars, is unreasonable and ungenerous. On an early day next wagon Sir Erskine Perry will more net the lects diecke ' ed by matt emits in Ise* the omberrecred Wets otitis thwaces, the reel-edrohda treats efjeelice Inns provincrelscente, sad the lannmereble de which mks our Indian powswicee en integral portion of the What umpire, trader it expedient that the govern mot of that many rhombi be troisiond, ti maim as well to is ad, hos the Est India Company to the repariblo abides of the monk" steadily declined on the ground that any such close connexion with influential people might interfere thereafter with his perfect freedom of political thought and action. In 1828 Beranger again came into collision with the government, then under the premiership of M. de Martignac. This time his punishment was more severe. On the 10th December, 1828, he was condemned to nine months' imprisonment in La Force and 10,000 f. fine. The imprisonment, as on the former occasion, was alleviated by every mani festation of public sympathy ; the fine was paid by general subscription. The revolution of July brought Beranger's friends into power ; but he steadily refused all offers of poli tical place. Ile would not resign liberty for power. Slanderers," he says, with reference to this part of his career," have said that I made a parade of virtue. Pshaw! it was not virtue : it was indolence. .1 have (From the Deily News.) The illustrious Beranger—one of the greatest lyric poets, and the greatest song writer whom the world has ever known—has just passed from among us. Iles chansons, e'est moi, maid Beranger on the only occasion on which he has addressed tho public at any length about himself and his works—the Preface of 1833. It is the simple truth. Never was there a case of more complete identity. The life of the man who has stirred the hearts and influenced the destinies of a groat people to a degree which no poet of modern time—scarcely any poet of any time—hag ever equalled, has been singularly modest, unpretending, and obscure. This poet of the people, who has sung for the people, suffered for the people, and whose highest boast it was that he never ceased to be one of the people, was born in the very humblest grades of the class to which it was his glory to belong. Je vas clans, et tres ratan—that burden of one of his most popular songs—is no affected bout of the social cynic trampling, with greeter pride, on the pride of worldlings—it is a plain matter of fact. On the 10th of August, in the year 1780, Beranger first saw the light in the city of Paris. Of his parents little, nay, next to nothing, is known ; of his mother no mention is ever made by the poet, nor is his silence supplied by any information that has fallen within oar reach. His father appears to have been somewhat of a maurais aniel, whose best gift to his son was possibly that inexhaustible stock of vivacity—that fond pollard, as Mirabeau calls it— which has constituted a main element of world wide popularity for some of the greatest writers in France — for Rabelais, for Molitlre, for Voltaire, and for Beranger. His grandfather, and an aunt by the father's side,have the sole credit of his early nurture. His grandfather was a tailor, living in the Rue Monforgueil, in a house which has long since given way to that rage fur renovation which has done so much to improve the beauty, and diminish the historical interest, of Paris. Thus it was, [ " chez on toilleur mon paurre et rieux grandpirel that the first ten years of the poet's life were passed. [From 1780 to 1790 the child Beranger grew up, [ with the streets and alleys of Paris for his play ' ground—a strange playground in those eventful ' years—the stage of a vast and exciting drama, where scenes of popular enthusiasm and popular triumph were not lost on the observant boy, and had their influence in forming the future man. In those years, as he has told us (Le 14 Juliet), he heard the cry " rengeonsmous— ti la Bastille ass armee saw the mixed multitudes rushing by to the onslaught—he saw the faces of the mothers, sad the wives, and the daughters grow pale, he heard the drums roll and the cannons roar, and then the shout go up to Ileaven—" Vietaire au people, le Am ble est pHs." In another and still nobler poem (La Meese), Beranger has told us how his child's heart yearned within him at one of the festivals of the Revolution, as he mingled in the press and the tumult that surged round the triumphal car of the frail beauty who personated for the moment the " Goddess of Liberty." From 1790 to 1796, from the 10th to the 16th year of his age, the boy dwelt at the little town of Pcronne, under the care of his aunt. Here, as he tells us in the lines entitled Soorenirs d'Enfunee, he led for some time an indolent and unsettled life, trying several occupations, including that of " garcon dautserye," Anglie4, pot-boy, and settling in none, till he was at last apprenticed to M. Laisnex, a printer of the town. This occupation suited him, as he says himself, Jo me eras dee drafts an nom de sage Lorequ'on m'apprit to =Zonal. de Franklin. From this moment he gave himself up to stubborn literary effort. The masterpieces of French style became the subjects of his assiduous study. His great grief was that the learned languages were a sealed book to him. This deficiency he never made good, but his subsequent career has furnished a convincing proof that the finest and most consummate graces of poetical expression are within the reach of self taught genius, though without any tincture of classical training. In 1796 Beranger returned to Paris, and for the next seven years lived, with the usual result, on no other revenue but his wits. These were the days of which he says, in writing years afterwards to a friend, "1 WAR so poor!—the [ smallest party of pleasure forced me to live for a week after on the lenten fare of my own composi- I , Hens, with no other seasoning than the hope of future glory." This is tho period of that ardent ard joyous youth of which he has left so living a picture in his immortal poem "Le ([realer." This was the bright spring time of his existence, when in the depths of poverty he wan lord of joys which all the gold of millionaires cannot purchase for a mo ment—when rich in love, and friendship, and poetry, he could brave alike the fools and sages of the world, rock himself in elysian dreams of passion and of glory, lavish life on eest my on the passing moment, or look rapturously forth along the vista of the future, all radiant with the morning dews of hope. These were the days when living amongst the people he imbued himself with the thoughts of the people— learnt the secret of their deep passions, their high instincts, and their stormy joys. He was thus training himself for his future work, bat the pressure of want was severely felt. The burden of this sore need drove him to the only ap plication he ever seems to have made to the dis pensers of patronage. It was in 1803 that he sent some of his manuscript poems to Lucien Bonaparte, with a manly and touching statement of his cireum- PRINCE Louis MAPOLEON.—LIVERPOOL, Juts stances. The application was not made in vain. 17.—His Imperial Highness Prince Louis Napoleon re- Lucien gave the young poet plenty of good advice, turned to Liverpool from Manchester last night, and pro and what was more to the purpose, assigned him a eroded on bused La Rene Molina.. This morning, in the small annual allowance. In 1800, through the absence of the Mayor (Mr. F. Shand), the Deputy Mayor, friendship of M. Arnault, a well-known and influ- M r. J. Chairman H. tie Dock Committee, urner . AldeT ier n les ;e r ld, one, eatial litterateur of the day, Belanger obtained an Mr. Frank Heywood, proceeded on board the Hortense, inconsiderable but permanent employment as a where they were received by the French Consul and intro government clerk in the department of Public In- dated to bis Imperial Highness, who asked many questions struction. The value of the post was only 1,800 f., respecting the commerce of the port, and appeared to be or 701. a year, but it more than sufficed for the mo- mush interested by the fore st The to les of tr i o me ttde a .;l l 74l37 dest wants of the young poet,who now devoted him- '"" Prince afterwards proceeded on board the unite; self with renewed ardour to composition. States steam frigate Niagara, where he was received by That he wrote much which he never suffered to Captain lludwin. Ho wail shown over the veiled, with the see the light may safely be assumed ; his habits of noble proportions and capacity of which he seemed highly composition were to the last degree laborious; he aftetnkianT'int directed to the pr never allowed anything to pass from his hands with- f vo fne te l egra ph c a bl e on board. Captain e Hudson explemed n t'ho properties of the cable and its mode of manufacture, and prevented his out having given it the utmost degree of perfection he was capable of imparting, and he never published highness with • piece of it, and with a chart showing the fro rinee 'in th w is h° r atedi tereering Y a line till the year 1815, when ho was 36 years of place elm.d where otidti it o. is to be lai he d b t a w deri n. T ved he P board alma an hour and a half. On taking age, although many of the poems in his first collec tion, especially the "Roi d'Yeetot," had been p re- Wes the yards were manned and three hearty viously handed about in manuscript The sensation sheers were giv en by the American crew. His Imperial . produced by this first publication arms immense. Hi g hs.. at the stage, and was driven to the Town- France found in Beranger a poet who was not only lull, and thence to Aintree, with the intention of witness able to sing of love and wine as none since Anacreon lag the sports at the Liverpool races. He returned in about had ever sung of them before,. but who could give the a hoar a l , a istr daa boa ttreatheGVorrt.a-hall' and noblest and most heart-stirrin s g expression to thew evening the Deputy Haver and Mr. Charles Turner will passionate and remorseful regrets, to that sense of dine with his Imperial Iconess on h ost s th e H o d., blighted glory and humbled pride which then which will sail to-night for the Isle of Man, from which smouldered in the breast of the whole people, place it will probably proceed to Belfast. Six years elapsed before Beranger's next Rnbli- " A considerable number of conversions from ea cation—six years of aristocratic and priestly tholiciem to pinteetantiem," may, the New Prussian anette, reaction, of restored Jesuitism and a re-established "have„ .. l !tely Janes Omni ParneuhrlY in Moravia. Gene censorship, of corruption in the court, and discontent F;;;11....". 'a i rs ttiTv g t? on the s rurel are ar t u O st : h m en o ' s i tl t ; the amongst th e people. With a power of caustic pene- slued by the difficulties which the clergy throw in the way tratioo, and a wealth of wit, irony, and eloquence of mixed marriages." that h as never been surpassed, Beranger observed A duel with pistols, attended with fatal comm and exposed all the political follies and vices of that games, took place • few days ago between two student& of mean andmiserable epoch. The publication of &volume cis Usivoratty of Onsifswirld, in Prumbk One of them, shot so boldly truthful was an unpardonable offence in the tenant, lin ty ne t distelyex, • pirad. advereerY gave ~._ France of 1821. On the prosecution of M. Msrchsgny , t : I ,T ho m u r: ) , eu relig t . •"' '7 h ; the poet was sentenced to three mon th s' imprison - dew bay* Mud to give a benediction to the deceased. went in St. Pelagic. He was also deprived of his a triumph. His imprisonment wasA Nolo= awe was • few days ago brought before clerkship. His the tethemel at Corinna& The Gazette of that town having place of detention became a daily levee for all the paid* ea wade it which it was said that the beer chiefs of the liberal party ; and ptuwahi of wine . and WWI WU all lb fine flavour the belA pouredgame in boat all parts of Adam On his re- r e t st vitm a rirrum et wr a m` r ra t i • is Z b r imu la h ' . ll M. /Anti. P lemsi Ala to an t a l ame in his =heel la au No ed . as dohs was ilemwi tonlang-homen, on saw As low dee % oft p n g ie th e nem b in a ms l ag& ek if A n a ! a j ar . clerkship bed Ars Os poet vela eei& to wior ► ea* r odors fls ualfitr. no love for sinecures, and all compulsory work is in supportable to me." From that time until his death Beranger passed a happy and uneventful life in modest but honourable retirement, principally at the pleasant village of Pigmy, in the immediate neighbourhood of Paris. The enthu siasm of his countr)•men after the Revolution of 1848 forced upon him a seat at the National Assembly. But nothing could induce Beranger to give up his charming privacy for the storm and tur bulence of political life. He has not, however, been an inattentive spectator of the course of events; and it is pretty generally known that some of the most caustic epigrams against the Second Empire have proceeded front the same pen that has most nobly celebrated the glories of the First. Reviewing this long and brilliant career, it is im possible not to be struck, in the first instance, with its antique simplicity and self-consistency. The saine simple tastes, the same warm affections. the same serene and smiling philosophy, have abided with this remarkable man from the beginning of his course even to the end. He has never wai et ed in his love of liberty, never concealed his hatred of oppression. He has been firm throughout to ono cause—that of truth, justice, and the people. Ile has been constant throughout to one choice of life— that of lettered ease, and genial sociality, warmed by friendship and brightened by love. It is a noble picture—a poetic youth ; a sublime manhood; a beautiful old age. Such was Beranger as a man ; as a poet he must take rank among the highest masters of the art. His own conception of his mission is thus expressed in his own simple language : Il fallait un homme qui parVit au peuple le lanyaye pea entend et yu'il aline. But is it an easy function this of speaking to the people in language they understand and love? &ranger did not thank so. This is how he speaks of the obligation imposed on the true people's poet : "To captivate the attention of the people you must conceive more strongly and more grandly. You must adapt to the robust nature of those you address your subjects and your mode of handling them : they don't want ab stract ideas or generalised types : you must show them the human heart in its naked reality. Shake speare, I think, was subjected to this happy neces sity. If you ask me what is to become of the perfections of style, I answer that style cannot be too perfect where the conceptions arc great, the thoughts simple and strong. The rule is this. Invent and imayilie for those who do not, many of them, blow how to read; compose for those who know how to compose themselres." Beranger's prac tice is in exact conformity with this theory. Nothing can be more simple, strong, and great than his thoughts, nothing more exquisitely perfect than his style. Hence his unparalleled success, alike with the cultivated and the uncultivated reader. Ile speaks homo to the heart of the one, he capti vates the taste of the other. His political poems afford perhaps the completed illustration of this twofold success. The simplest may understand them ; the wisest may profit by them. Another striking feature in these poems is that, though microscopic in finish and miniature in extent, they are grandiose in their proportions and panoramic in their range. They rise far above the region of occasional satire, and present not only individual portraits, but peren nial types and universal truths. iiis famous Marquis de C'arabas, for instance, is not only an admirably exact portrait of the old French emigrant noble of the Restoration, but it abounds in strokes applicable to ill political parties that ever have been or v. ill be similarly , situated. Tho Censorship of the Press is as universal ix its applicability as Milton's Areopayilic. The diatribe against the Jesuits, beginning, " Hommes noire, ifoll so•te= coos," is a resume in six stanzas of all that the wit of man can suggest in aspersion of the order of Loyola. That immortal song of the Cossack contains within itself the concentrated expression of all that feeling of Europe against Russia which has recently eventuated in a great war, and is evidently destined to mould so powerfully the future des tiny of the modern world. In La Sainte Alliance des Peoples, again, is embodied even more comprehensively the perpetual protest of the peoples against the dynasties. But the political poems after all are not those to which Beranger will owe the brightest portion of his immortality. The most imperishable of his thoughts arc those which he has scattered over the common loves and joys and sorrows of humanity. Here he has never been surpassed. The wise philosophy of the thought, the heartfelt spontaneous simplicity of the emotion, the unrivalled and indeed inimitable grace of the expression—form a combination which no other lyrical poet has equalled. Horace conies nearest to it, but there is in Beranger a certain Anacreontic abandon, a charming naivetk as of Ronsard and the Troubadours, which the courtly Roman with all his curious felicity never quite succeeded in catching. I Still if we wished to convey to a classical reader un acquainted with Beranger some notion Iltith of the peculiar perfection of his style and the peculiar vein of his philosophy, we should probably effect our pur pose, without wronging the ancient bard or doing injustice to the modern one, by calling the latter the Iforace of France. Cbc Court. IiOYAL PAVILION,ALDERSHOTT CAMP, FRIDAY, JULY 17. The Queen arrived at the pavilion yesterday soon after six o'cleek. Lieut.-General Knollya, Major -General the Hon. Sir J. Scar:ett, Major-General Lord William Pow let, Major-General ti.e Hon. A. Spencer, and Colonel Ward. R o y a l Artillery, had tie honour of Leing invited to dinner. H er H e im" l e ft th e piCrilion at ten o'clock thin morning, accompanied by the l'rs Royal and Princess Alic e , l e ea open carriage and four, and Was present at a field dry. The Prince Consort and Prin.`n Alfred went on horseback. His Majesty the King of the Ile:aiens, with the l'rins alas Charlotte of Belgium and WO Count of Flanders, returned to Beeklngluioilase, front Manchester, at five minutes to twelve o clock yesterday loon& 2. • 11W suite, the King was attended by M. Va. , de Weytr. the Belgian minister, Lord Waterpark, Major-On:stet tLe Ilea. Sir Kdanni Cast, and Lord Alfred Paget. The Duchess of Heat visited the Kiug soup disr his ar. rival tit the palace. At ten minutes past ono o'clock, the King, with the Prins OCAS Charlotte and the Count of }Under., took hie dsparture (mm the paha.° for Dover, en rode to the continent. The King and the Printess were attended by the Countess d'Yre, Madame de Boric, Count de Moerkerke, Csptsin Burnell, Dr. Knepl, the Belgian Minister lewd Watterpirk, Major- General the Hon. Mir Edward Cost, Lord Alfred Paget and Major-Osneral Musette. M. Van do Weyer, the ltslgisw Minister, and Sir Edward Coat, continued their atteadata* on the King him the Bricklayers Arms station to Dover. Thu Duebese of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Mans Dawson end Sir George Couper, left her reselonce, Clarence. house, St. James'e, yesterday afternoon, for Frogmore. A deputation on the subject of the Mersey Conaervesey and Dock Bill had an intoniew with Vircount Pahuereton, yesterday. The deputation connoted of Mr. ticholetield, M.P. (Birmingham), General Thompeen, M.P. (Bradford), Sir John Potter, M.l'. (Manchester), Mr. Wickb tea M.P (Bradford), Sir Jos( ph Paxton, )LP. (Coventry), Mr. Turner, M.P. (ilnnebeater), Mr. Pilkington, M.l'. (Black burn), Mr. llornby, (111ackbum), Mr. Crook, M.P. (Bolton), Mr. Phillips, M.P. (Bury), Mr. Baas, M.P. (Derby). Mr. Beale, M.P. (Derby), Mr. Price, M.l'. caner, 111 r. Akroyd, M.P.(liudelsrstleld), Mr. Grogan', M.P. (Lsnraster), Mr. Cheatham, M.P. (South Lanaaohire), Mr. Roebuck, 111. P (Sheffield), Mr. Hadfield, M.l'. (Sheffield), Mr. Bettered, M.P. (Leeds), Mr. Brockleburet, M.l'. ;Mac eleadeld) Mr. GAMIC, M.P. (Oldham), Mr. Platt, M.P. (Oldham Mr. Mamey. M.P. (Salford), Mr. Wise, TM r. Mr. Kershaw, M.P. (Stack pmt), Mr J. B. Smith, M.l'. (Stockport) Mr. Copeland, M.P. (Stoke-Treat), Mr. Lindeay; (Tynemouth). Lend Goderich, M.P. (Wmt Riding of York), Mr. Weathead, M.P. (York), Mr. Buchanan, M I'. (filar emir), Mr. Dalgloioh, M.P. (Glaagow), Mr. Birk, M.P. ((Newry), Mr. &Mann, M.P. (Drogheda), Mr. Crosalri, M.P. (Halifax). Mr. Bulkeley Hughes, M.P. (Carnamen Mr. Thornhill, M.P. (Derbyshire), Mr. Barrio, M.I. (Leicester), Mr. Evans, M.P. (Derbyshire), Mr. Foster, M.P. (Walsall), Mr. Winkle. M.P. (Great Yarmouth), Mr. Vil liers, M.P. (Wolverhampton), Mr. Mainwaring, M.P. (Den bighnhire), Mr. COWL], H.P. (Edinburgh), Mr. Schneider, M.P. (Norwich), Mr. Cavendish, M.P. (North lanmabire), Mr. Wood, H.P. (Pontefract), Lord Melgund, M.l'. (Clack mamma), Mr. W. B. Sheridan, M.P. (Dudley), Mr. Williams, M.P. (Lambeth, Mr. Biggs, M. r. (Is Rester), with Sir James Watts Mayor of Manchester), and deputation from the Council of that city; the Frond...or of the Manchester Member of Commerce and Commercial &e -maciation; the Chairman of the Great Western Lord Barrington; Mr. Beaten, from Rochdale, and other gentlemen from the manufacturing districts, interetted in the Port of the Mersey; and Mr. H. H. Wyatt, parliamentary agent. A deputation from the University of London, on the rub• ject of medical reform, had also an interview with LA Palmerston. It congaed of Lord Granville, Sir lamas Clark, Dr. Billing, Mr. Grote, and Dr. Gull. Chief Justice Draper, from Canada, Lad an interview with Mr. Secretary Labonchere yesterday, at the Colonial-offire. Dexpatcles were sent yesterday, from the Colonial-olike, to the Governors of the North American Provinces. (TROY LAB? NIOTIT'S GAZETTE.) BUCKINGHAM -PALACE, JULY I.s.—Thia day had audience of the Queen Her Majesty the Queen of the Notherlands. Her Majesty was attended by Baron B.ritinek, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the King of the Netherlands; to which audience her Majesty wee introduced by tho Earl of Clarendon, K. 0.. Ifer Majeoty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, end conducted by Major-General the Honourable Sir Edward Ceet t. K.C.H., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 17.—The Queen has been paciuusly pleased to give orders for the appointment of Colonel George de Hot tonburgh, adjutant generol of the militia in Cannda, and of Colonel Edward Macarthur, serving with the local rank of major-gcscral in Auxtralia, and for some time administering the government of the colony of Victoria, to be ordinary members of the civil dimwit of the third class, or companions of the Moss Honourable Order of the Bath. . FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAT I.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint Sir Robert Schouiburgh, Knight, now her Majesty's consul in the Dominican Republic, in St. Domingo, to be her Majesty's consul at Bangkok, in Siam. July 10.—The Queen bee been gra ciou.Jv pleased to appoint Keith Edward Abbott, Esq., late her aajesty'a commit at Tobrocz, to be her Majesty's consul gsal at Tabeees ; sad also Richard Stevens, Etq., to be boy Majesty's consul at Teheran. DOWNING-STREET, JCLT 9.—Mr. Secretary Lattnuchere has appointed Mr. William Strachey to be en officio director of the Ceylon Railway Company, on behalf of the government of Ceylon. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary honoured Lord and Lady Poltimure with their company at dinner yesterday, at their house in During the stay of the Prince Napoleon in Lon don, hia imperial highness will, we believe, be the guest of the Duke and Duchies of Hamilton, in Arlington-street. Prince Napoleon will elm peas one or two days at Osborne House with the Queen before bin return to Paris. Madame Musurus gave a ball, last evening, at tho residence of the Turkish Embassy, in Bryanstone-square. The Prinoo Edward of Saxe-Weimer, and Prince Frederick of Holstein honoured the fete with their presence. The late review of the let and 2nd Life Guards at Wormwood Scrubbe was, we (United Serrav Gaatte) heir, anything but satiefeetory to either the Commander-in-Chief _ . or the of Cavalry, and svobave reason to believe that more than one re , ignaiion has been sent in to the Horse Guards, seining entirely from the wigging the officers received upon that day. The many spectators of Mr. Wilkie Collins' admirably-coustracted drama e! The ISVieli Deep will learn with pleasure that during an entertainment given this week by Mr. Albert Smith, on his lawn at Fulham, to all the performers, a capital group of the whole was done by artistic hands, and photographed in a most artistic manner. VISIT OF tIER MAJESTY TILE QUEEN Or THE NITREIU.ANDS TO THZ ClTT.—Yesterday morning, Moray before twelve o'clock, her Majesty the Queen of the Nether lands, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Prams Mary of Cambridge, and suite, with the Right lion. Sir Benjamin Hail, Bart., the Netherlands Minister Baron Ben tack, arid M. Weckbetlin, Sundae, Bantwyk, and Peps, attended by the dames d leelineur to her Majesty, paid a visit to the Guildhall, for the purpose of inspecting the ancient civic edifiers. Her Majesty was received by the Lord Mayor. After inspecting the Guildhall, the royal party proeesbd to the Tower, edict's they inspected the fortress, and afterwards partook of a &jeweler, given by the Right Hon. the Constable to the distinguished visitors. From the City the Queen drove to the House of Lotils, over which she was conducted by Sir Charles Barry. The house wee sitting at the time the royal party arrived, and her Majesty had the advanuigs of hearing Lord Broug ham's epeech upon the Slave Trade. From the House of Lords the Queen returned to Cbuidee Hotel, where alto dined with the members of ber suite; but the day was not yet over with her Majesty, for at nine o'ckek the royal carriages were egein ordered to convey her to the House of Commons, where, from the Ladies' Gallery. het Majesty listened with such interest for more than an hour to the debate then proceeding. Her Majesty has just attained her 36th year. Henry Bliss, Esq., Q.C., the senior counsel attend ing tbo Arbes at Lancaster and Liverpool, leas been ap pointed Attorney-General of the County Palatine of Lan caster, in the place of C. J. Knowles, Req., Q.C., resigned. Professor Sedgwick is at present pursuing his geological researches among the old rocks of this interesting locality, in company with Dr. Gough and Mr. John Ruth yen, of Kendal, and oar townsman Mr. John Bohm.— Ulrersten Adrertiser. A meeting of her Majesty's Commiseioners for considering the extent and boundaries of the several dioceses of Canterbury, London, Winchester, and Rochester was held yesterday, at No. 13, Great George-street, West minter. Commissioners present—The Archbishop of Can terbury (president), the Earl of Harrowby, _the Earl of Chichester, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right Hon. Stephen Lnehington, Dr. Travers Twin (vies?' general), the Venerable Archdeacon Sinclair, the Venerable Archdeacon Jones. Mr. Felix Knyvett, secretary to the commission, also attended. MUTUAL COMPANIES.—The following table of fees is proposed in the bill now before parliament veers- Lion when proposed number of members does not exceed 100, 61. • every additional 50, 6e. ; for registration of a com pany,tie number of whose mambos is unlimited, a fee of 601. ; for registering any document, ss. ; for making a record of any feet, 6s. • documents, per folio, 6d . Member d mutual'companic4 should look well into the provisions dads act, which will bring all companies under the control of the Board of Trade, and in its present teem will peressitate the winding-up of many mutual investment societies from the trouble and expenses they _would be put to, is =yips out the requirements of the bill.