The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1873-01-25 00:00:00

THE LATE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.

Referring to the 111-luck of the late Emperor, the Daily
Sew remarks,—

That the dead Sovereign who was buried on Wednes-
day has left his mark on the world, we all know. But
it is not always remembered how very different this
mark is from that which he intended to I.ave. He
had not a little to do with the making and un-making
of Kings, but the Fates seemed to thwart him in this,
as in ao many other of his schemes.. He was brought
into more or less intimate relation's with most of the
crowned heads of Europe, but his enmity hurt them
Mats, his friendship profited them less. Against the
Emperor of Bawds he levied sucoessful war eighteen
yens ago, and compelled his successor to soe for peace.
The only loss whi h the Emperor of ElLikli sustained
through lii* defeat was made op to him two yeses ago,
when the Bin dc Sea was °ace more thrown open to his
war ships. He very nearly paid dear for Napoleon's
friendship; it was as his guest, driving with him in
the same carriage, that he well-nigh fell a victim to
Berezowski's bullet. The Emperor of Austria
warned to have sustained a severe overthrow on
Midsummer Day, 1659 ; but though the defeat of

SoHerrin° Involved the loes of Lombardy, it brought
about the consolidation of the Austrian Empire
by the reconciliation between Austria and Hungary.
and the establishment of Constitutional Govern-
ment. Afterwards, when Napoleon offered some sort
of compensation for Solferino, and placed the brither
of the Emperor Francis Joseph upon the throne of
Mexico, he was preparing for the House of Haps-
burg a day of tribulation and mourning; for the
Emperor he had made he had to abandon, and
could not even sive hirn from execution. The
King of Pruseia, whom Napoleon 111. never loved,
and whose humiliation he would gladly have wit
nessed, became by his own instrumentality the most
powerful Sovereign in Europe, and while residing
1114 a victor in the palace of the French Kings, re
stored the German Empire, and assumed the Im
penal dignity. Napoleon did indeed lay the first stone
of the Italian Kingdom, but he never intended to
, build that etructure. His ideas were far other than
that when he first declared that he would free Italy
"from the Alps to the Adriatic." Alter the Peace of
Villafranca, he used all his efforts to prevent Italian
unification, and twice sent his troops to protect the
Pope's temporal sovereignty. It was quite in accord-
ance with his usual ill luck that the Kinedom whose
establishment be would have frustrated became esta-
blished, and that the sovereignty which he would have
upheld became overthrown. The very first cher k which
Napoleon sustained in his last fatal campaign heralded
the completion of the Kingdom of Italy, and the ter-
mination of the Papal rule. His friendship for Queen
Isabella of Spain as little availed to save her from
expulsion as his interposition in behalf of another
Bourbon Francis 11., of Naples, had saved him from the
like fate. Our own Queen, almost alone of all the
Sovereigns with whom he was on terms of friendliness,
did not suffer thereby. It is well to point this moral,
for we learn from it how little, after all, is the per-
manent influence which any one man has upon the
political condition of the world. The Archduke Maxi-
milian shot at Queretaro, King William proclaimed
Emperor of Germany a Wersaillee ; each of those
events was indeed a terrible anti-climax, revealing
alike the powerlessness to establish and the powerless-
newness to overthrow. The Sovereign whose words
had agitated Europe from the IJral Mountains to the
Bay of Biscay, lived to see everyone of his designs set
aside and overturned ' and he himself, the great
fate
schemer, shared the fa of his schemes.

SPUTTERINGS 'FROM " JIJDTS" PEN.
To whom ehould sailors appeal fn tempestuous weather ?
The Biahope, to be sure. they are Lords of the Dire Seas
(Diocese).

A MISS Is as good as a Mile—Better, when she brings a
fortune.
WHERE CVO and what to do in Sammer-time—By the
see: Winter -time (and Summer)—Buy JUDY.

RUT LITTLE DIFFERENCE —lf a pretty barmaid Is not
Bodegs, she la beau'd eager.
WE! does the wife of a scolding husband lose flesh I—Be-
cause she's domed and redooid.
WHEN lie parson not out 7—When he is in-toning.
A PRISON Dance—A quod-reel.
THE world without women would be like a blank sheet of
paper—not even ruled.
Mt:Exults of the Tied—Married people grumbling.
A NUN IN-HABITED House—A convent.
BE contented with your lot, especially at a mock &nett on.
A SuI:ND Instructor—A teacher Of music.
A BABY Life-preserver—The feeding-bottle.
TRYING C mclusions—The end of sermons.
A DINNER gendee—Grace before meat.
OUR maid says tea Is reedy: whereas, 'Ms always dark
brown.

THE Mermaid's Dance—The Conger (reel)
Wily are Bed Ribbons so common In Francs t—Because
their name is Legion
AN altered State —Married life. —Judy.