The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-23 00:00:00

1 ~~ OCTottlt-3, '1865 b SUPP ~ p ro. n 66 hat me r tto untry do you core le tne cl oar ; cr 'thin a g t • ~hal. 3r-three years." Y e e j,° ll ally. children" " ito,''',lre, one sour." , A EI t. " „' s he employed?" cc Veh,`"4lPeter to the lith Of • -: v eil • d tt e re ~ res giyientp,Dragooll6." exercise." h c 't n' %re, and the sword . ~,said the with in ve:rl:ll4l::riiiiieehrroeYsitaisntsue'noends, it e o ße t t ness thle , Breton :Double ad- Were let d int . ' 4 (.1 let this bx "C olonel,ave:Beton join movements, which lip ere - eolonel directed the the tro ra op nks.,, so much 4.rdolipt/ented by 'lreto n Double w was de- I ti - 44( . 1 pre that the Emperor. woman rnovem ith ted eision, kaakain44(l . Mirprised at and courage °{' - her with the vigour tart co horse : witnessing a 1 44thealqaigner. o at h d t h i .tatisned with I4attep„,t '4lPeror, "and appoint you a regimental ,,at your zeal and ability, be sa water ; take th'ss towards your dress, hand, s ad 21,,,e tittle plaein I Napoleon fi v e wen to h 'I-terig twenty dd•tonal to be g er. ~ - a i i shall t)le, Go arid rejoin your squadron ; in her . we -', again.", ite-4,,l'et_on Double expressed her grateful thanks L.ae trnperor, and lost no time • taking the a!tion to which, by her new rankin became ttitled, amidst the ongratulations anl she cheers of 17,,,L., auuierous Wit nesses of the scene. The action I. ,eptitinued mo b e e ;han two hours, when Breton `,,?1,e, who had n sent to the right wing with ttlturtgoere, rejoined her corps, and Perceiving that, !ielq - Ni as , r was surrounded by a large body of 7, f,ourageously dashed through the gelti I tWori in hand, killed the commander, re ' eativi, ,4er countrymen the 4ai k i l oeudi ..,. . and returned to 1 .0(1 , Ittl Y gisplaying the sash of the van ae I , ter. NI 41 tt4414 feal:eror having been informed of this Iri t i to he' directed a golden medal to be pre itl pNteildr' \vhiel. was received by our heroine hal rlia4ia. at tatla religious respect.. Subsequently,e 1 411 the die e Nnmencement of an action, she ih 04 the orttilie to be wounded by a musket t " lisi•ht h. etie,' the :L.,, IP ; instead, however, of return 141)4the'Y with in --"t, d e continued to assault the N l 4 el le ,:aZ",(I our, out of revenge for I " a l a%aill strn':lllring from the wound ; but lh e ' NOtWithst '''' by a bullet under the right t field, b alidino• i . refused to qui ttehi , Otllid ~ t:, t 118, she 11 14 1 e h t to R ob thl the Wound the . mg, her ;lett' rass e d ' e bleed' hung her arm in a with a hand -1-111 and e h ,s_. reins of her bridle over. tile: 11'101, rti Nt. lik e lier sabre from aeverrt raw:ned a furious hyena into the 1q 4 ,, Qin ell 1,. After killing her right he and disabling tillvlllthe i' 4" final d six Prussians, e al ttle . y capture v''4l)Nr. Is, dlately carried in triumph Double, tookleetta aPoleon, r ecognising Breton He kid pi: 1,41114 k slteli devotion and bravery. to th e nd on t i t NI breast the cross tiah 4 ve l i „ °II li. pai d q‘ tgo, yrs, directed she • Y P ton, t° that 1411ds e xamined, and ever cl Nig th4t "3: the surgeons. es ; e t .. .atten ic qtlit eellod until 1814, Breton Double rail., 4 1 th 'egllzent, performing e tt ° "' sot: earopaign, _ sometimes as a 1111' eileth,'l", alld at other times entering me c;N-thtet. 01 , - .7 l) 's e cam in female attire, either as Por t - ohtaf asant, in which latter capacity fit, a lit at l d tied information that was advant .. Lehgl, At w, a,,eous to the Frenchg overn to highly of 'Lerloo she paid her last tribute t 'lle i Pr ance, in the military service of eii nad • thk ,Rbe Passed seventeen years ; during et qi'nent her left leg was broken by a ', and Poncet, her husband, then a PPI , ;g y p!' efij) !' a I,ll' er 6 o )1 , 0 e's PARISIAN " LIGHTS" AND " SHADOWS." SUCH a sight as the Place de la Concorde, with its extraordinary vistas, its fountains, obelisk, and statuary, presents in the sunlight. ; and the Boule vards offer at night, with their thousand lights, bright lofty houses, and myriad people, talking, laughing, sipping,—everything but working,--is scarcely to be seen elsewhere. Great and costly works are going on, in the Louvre, the new Rue de Rivoli, the cathedral of Notre Dame, the church of St. Clotilde, and other structures and places. French manufactures which involve art command the markets of the world. The Paris cafe's exhibit decorations of the most elegant and costly descrip tion ; artistical sculpture is seen scattered on every side ; and justly, we say, may all exclaim, " Clever people ! Wonderful Paris !" So much, however, has been heard of this lately, that we seem likely to forget that the bright picture has a dark side also, and, what would be worse, may assist in persuading our allies that they have nothing to improve, nothing to reform. There are many, many points on which our anomalous neighbours—so great and so little, so advanced and so backward—may with great advantage take a lesson from what has been done in England. Shall we not go farther, and say there are few things in which they could not do so ? Incomplete and impure as is our water supply, compared with what it should be, that of Paris is not to be compared with it ; open to objection as the state of our drainage may be, that of Paris is a hundred times worse. Many of the best-looking houses in Paris are, as relates to health, in a perfectly fearful and thoroughly abominable condition, — whited sepulchres literally and truly. At this moment the beautiful city contains a vast maga- iMIENT TO THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD captain, died at her side, enthusiastically believing that the Eagle was still victorious. Her leg was amputated on the scene of slaughter ; and Breton Double, respected and admired by her late ene mies, was conducted to Dublin, where she was obliged to undergo a second amputation above the knee. After passing six years in this country, everywhere honoured and hospitably treated, she returned into France on the death of Louis XVIII., furnished with certificates from the French consul in Dublin, and ambassador in London. From her long absence it was concluded that she had been killed at Waterloo ; and, in consequence, the name of this woman, so worthy of the Legion of Honor, was not retained in the list of members. She eventually obtained from Charles X. a pen sion of 280 francs ; but the revolution of July, so beneficial to others, did but add to the misfor tunes of Breton Double, who was deprived of the means of subsistence granted to her by the King. Services such as hers could not, however, be passed over unrewarded ; and in 1833 or 1834, the widow Poncet was informed that the Minister of War was in expectation of being enabled to satisfy all the demands she had on her country for her long and faithful services, by re-admitting her to the order of the Cross of Honor, and by bestowing on her the pension of a wounded quarter-master, and also the widow of a captain. The following sentiment, which she often uttered under her sad trials, will manifest the character of this extraordinary and noble-minded woman : " Although my fortune is humble, my heart is elevated." The son of Breton Double obtained high rank in the dragoons, and accompanied the Emperor to Elba. Reader, should you meet at Grenoble a female painfully moving on crutches, a body humbled by grief and wounds, this is Breton Double—salute her ; respect should be paid to the unfortunate and deserving. 147 zine of destructive materials, which may explode at any moment, carrying ruin and death into thousands of families. The danger to their brave troops from suspected mines in the Malakhoff, when they first entered it, was not more imminent than it is to the home-staying citizens themselves from the unsuspected " sap' in Paris. You need not go into the slums to prove it. Don't go there; if you wish to keep a good opinion of Paris. We will travel no further than to one of the chief establishments in the Rue de Richelieu,—say the Hotel des Princes,—where people are charged from five to ten francs a night for a middling bed up in the seventh heaven, and have the honour of paying two francs for a small sole for breakfast, and three francs for four penn'orth of boiled rice, called a boudin de riz. We mean no offence, but thus mark the great respectability of the house. Well, we have before us the personal evidence of four separate individuals, who, previously in good health, were here attacked on the same day and again afterwards with violent diarrhoea, sickness, and acute pains, distinctly attributable to the want of proper sanitary arrangements in the build ing. We looked into the circumstances ourselves, and can therefore speak positively. We have entered houses of a lower grade, so full of in jurious emanations that healthful life could not possibly be maintained therein, and we have found, in such few inquiries as we were able to make, the people dying off, notwithstanding their out-of-door life and other advantageous circumstances, at such ages as would prove the truth of the assumpion. Many of the houses contain a fever-still always at work. Paris is at this moment prevaded by foul smells and poison ous gases, rivalling in variety those sung by Coleridge in Cologne ; and the advantages which Nature has given to this beautiful city are thus more than counter-balanced by the blindness and carelessness of man. Truly, 'midst all its beauty and its brightness, there is no lack of materials for a book of "Paris Shadows, " thick and threaten ing, and we would commend to those who are in power the special duty of forthwith stirring to lessen them. Beauty in front will not compensate for filth, disease, and death behind.—The Builder. BABY SHOW BRUTALITIES. THE baby-show abomination, which had its origin in the vulgar brain of a greedy American quack, is making, to the disgrace of some of the women of England, considerable progress among us. There was a recent show at Boston, and another at Withernsea, of which more presently. Before us lies an announcement of a third, to be perpetrated - in a suburb, and the walls and hoards are placarded with invitations to a fourth, to be appropriately held among the beasts at the Surrey Zoological Gardens. As no deeent woman of any class would take her infant into a crowd to be examined, handled, and pinched, as if he were an animal for sale, to have it weighed, and its little bones and muscles commented upon, its fat estimated, and the general process gone through with which farmers and butchers buy and sell their live stock, Mr. Punch has no hesitation in using language upon the subject which he would abstain from employ ing were he merely remonstrating with thought less persons. He is perfectly certain that upon such women as are not ashamed to assist at these exhibitions his remarks would be utterly wasted. To the train of coarse and impure thought, sug gestion, and comparison which is generated at such shows, he need not allude, because the offensiveness of the original idea is more than