The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-09 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1864,

for striking his grand blow. At his suggestion
Madame Pauw procured from the office of the etat
the certificate of her birth, which would be requi-
site to be produced to receive the amount of the policies
after her death, and which could not have been wanted for
any ofher purpose. When he had got together all the papers
required, he told Madame Pauw to keep her bed, and give
out that she was worse than ever. At the same time, as she
complained during this voluntary sequestration that she lost
the price of some lessons she was giving to a person residing
in the Grand Hotel, La Pommerais said he would make up
the amount to her, and pay her the price of the lesson every
day. Madame Pauw did not leave her room after Nov. 12,
and always wore a nightcap, as if she were ill, in order the
better to deceive the doctors, who it was expected the com•
panies would send to visit her. La Pommerais said he wonld
make her take something to cause agitation, a promise well
calculated to render Madame Pauw disposed to take unhesi-
tatingly whatever he might choose to give her, and to prevent
her from being frightened by any disagreeable symptoms
which might follow.
But La Pommerais' injunctions to secresy did not prevent
Madame Pauw from telling several of her friends and neigh-
bours what she was hoping for. "If the thing succeeds," she
said, "my fortune and that of my children is made." She
repeated frequently, that on the policies being brought up she
was to have 3,000 f a year. All she bad to do tt as to make the
doctors believe that she was really ill, and to keep her bed for
about a fortnight. On November 13 she wrote to her friend
Madame de Ridder, to beg her to come the next day to
spend the evening. The tone of her letter indicated content-
ment and hope, and contained a promise to tell Mme, de Rid-
der "all about it" on the morrow. But La Pommerais sent
word to Mme. Pauw that he should come to pass Saturday
evening with her, and as he wanted particularly to be --,;ith
her alone, the rendezvous with Madame do R':uder
was
countermanded. No sensible change, howev yet appeared
in the health of the pretended sick persoTn. On the Monday
at five o'clock she dined in comps-4 with the two Misses
bßoi
no rr andi‘iad theiram Madame
mother.Dei
a ttre 'co
Sb afterwards begged a neigh-
get a bottle of essence for her,
and she made a toile'..te with a care and attention which
showed her to 'l,O in very geed health. She expected a
visit from La Pommerais. He came about eight o'clock.
He star,d with her a long while, and nobody else saw her
till tee morning at the next day. At half-past six the widow
P igerre, who came as usual to bring the bread, was surprised

to ft/a the key outside the door, whereas it was Madame
Pauw's habit to take it inside. This woman went into the
bedroom and found Madame Pauw in a terrible state. Her

face betrayed great suffering ; Iher bed and all the flooring
near it were stained by vomiting. Madame Pigerre at once
called up Felicite and Adelaide Pauw, who slept in the en-
tresol. They came up directly, but their mother told them
that she had only an indigestion, and wished to be left alone,'
Therefore they went to their own room. At eight o'clock
La Pommerais came again, and, as in the evening, remained
for a long while alone with Madame Pauw. It was evident
that she was in a dangerous state. But he called for no as-
sistance; he spoke to no one about her, and left her suffer-
ing as she was. She felt no uneasiness about herself. She
knew that to get the 3,000 francs a-year it was necessary
that she should appear to be seriously ill I Besides, La
Pommerais had re-assured her. She said to her daugh-
ter Felicite, " He tells me that I have the :cholera, and
that I shall be ill for 24 hours." Now, the word cho-
lera did not at all frighten her, because La Pommerais told
her that he had had it himself and had cured himself in 24
hours by means of a medicament which he would bring her.
So far, therefore, from asking her daughters to nurse her,
she ordered them to go to school as usual. But after they
were gone she got worse and worse, and received no atten-
tion, except from her neighbour, Madame Delattre, who
came to her every now and then. At 1 o'clock, Dr. Gau-
dinot, who she had often consulted, came to see her. He
really believed that she had fallen downstairs, and when he
learned from Madame Delattre that she had not followed
his prescriptions, he became very angry, and went away
without examining her, and without her attempting to
keep him. Shortly after this, and at about 2 o'clock, La
Pommerais cane again, and was again alone with her. He

prescribed nothing, and left her still suffering. At half-
past six Madame Pauw died, just as Dr Blackey, who had
been sent for by Mdlle. Hurlmond, arrived. La Pomme-
raia returned for the third time at eight o'clock. Mdlle.
Hurlmond, whom he met on the staircase, told him of
Madame Pauw's death. This news caused him no sur-
prise, no emotion. He went upstairs, coolly approached
the corpse of her who had so long been his mistress, as-
sured himself that she was really dead, and then withdrew,
leaving it to be supposed that her death had really been
caused by a fall on the staircase. " That is all nonsense,"
exclaimed Mdlle. Hurlmond, " Madame de Pauw never fell
downstairs." And as La Pommerais appeared to insist,
"Don't answer (she said tohim), you know well enough that
I knowall about Mine. de Pauw's affair." "He but too well
knew also (says the indictment) what was the cause of this
woman's death, and of that cause there cannot now be the
slightest doubt— Widow de Pauw was poisoned by La Porn-
merais in the evening of Nov. 16, The accused was the last
person who saw her that night. He admits that she was
seized with that voinitir g which furnishes to science the proof
that poison must have been administered some moments be-
fore. The next day he saw her twice ; he was again alone
with her, and nothing could have been more easy than to
repent the dose of poison if he thought it needful. He alone
had an interest to commit the crime, and he had evidently
imagined it at the moment when he made Madame de Pauw
effect those insurances which cannot be explained by any
other hypothesis."
It is alleged that as soon as Madame Pauw was dead
efforts were made by La Pommerais to get the whole of the
mone) from the eight insurance companies, and that many
letters were written by Madatne Pauw at his dictation,
which it now seems were to aid him in his work.
Several of these were received by her relations, particularly
her father and sister, the day after her death. The letters
tell them that she is very ill, and beg them to come imme-
diately, if they would find her alive. These letters, the first
not dated, were put into the post in the evening of Novem-
ber 19, a few moments after Madame Pauw had breathed
her last. It was the accused who got her to write these let-
ters six weeks before they were sent. She told Mdle. Hurl-
mond at the time, and according to the expression of this
witness, it pained her so much to write them that she cried
about it. A host of other statements are made in the 'al_
dictment against the accused, and it is said that tv
..ere is a
second charge against him of having poisonla his mother-
in-law, Madame Debizy, by digitalis,
1861, What kind
of defence will be made remains
De MIL

The Treatment :,z the Poor in Bethnal-Green,

THE OFFICIAL INQUIRY.

O -,4 Saturday forenoon, at 11 o'clock, Mr.Farnall resumed
this investigation at the Bethnal-green Workhouse, Vic-
toria. park.
The Commissioner proceeded with the case of Mr W.
Runcieman, a relieving officer, charged with neglect and
misconduct in the case of a poor family named White. It
was for neglecting to bury a full-grown child ; and also
that when the father—Wm. White, a small hawker, living
at 19, Weatherh-2ad-gardens. Crab-tree-row, Bethnal-
green—applied to Mr Runcieman to have the child buried,
he not only refused, but called the applicant "a common
impostor and a pauper, that he would have locked him up,
and that he would not give him a box for his child or any-
thing else, and then walked away."
Mr. Pearce, barrister, instructed by Mr. White, solicitor,
defended Mr. Runcieman.

Mr Win. Runcieman, examined by the Commissioner,
deposed that he was a relieving officer of the third district
of Bethnal-green for one year and eight months. H e remem-
bered that on Monday, the 29th of February, the man
White came to Rim for an order for the doctor for his wife,
who was near her confinement. Witness gave him an order
on Dr. Massingham. The next morning White came and
asked to have his child buried. Witness asked had ho got
a certificate. Ho said he had not. Witness then took notice
of the man, who seemed to have takes a little liquor. He
was excited. The man said his child was born dead, but
witness told him he could not take anyone's word in such a
matter, and he must have a certificate. The man made use
of bad language, and left. Witness entered the application
in the book, but not the reason for its refusal. White's
case was not then in the books, as entries were not
made about medical orders. He know that medical
orders were relief. The number of orders issued was re-
ported weekly to the guardians. The names of the appli-
cants were not reported, He issued about 30 orders a-week.
He did not call White a pauper or impostor. 0 n the Tues-
day he visited White, he did not enter the room as de-
scribed by White, for he knocked at the door, and it came
open. Facing the door was a bed on which lay Mrs White
(Ann Bradshaw), and outside the clothes White was lying
down asleep. Two other children were there, but witness
did not see them eating anything. Bradshaw told him the
child was dead in the room, but he did not see it. A napkin
he saw covered it. Witness said ho had not inquired into
the circumstances of the family before giving the medical
order.

The Commissioner said that should always be done. It
was not fair to the doctors, who were not overpaid, to send
orders for them to attend persons not entitled to their aid,
The witness said that the Whites' house was in a deplo-
rable and ruinous condition as to furniture. The bedding
covered the woman well. There were chairs and a table,
and carnmon ornaments on the mantelshelf. There were
some halfpence, perhaps 6d , on the shelf, There were po-
tatoes in a saucer, and half a loaf of bread on the table,
There were tea and sugar, apparently two ounce of the first
and half a pound of sugar, and perhaps half a pound of
meat also on the table.

The Commissioner—Neverthless, did it seem that it was
a poverty-stricken place.
Witness said that there was poverty the result of impro-
vinence, but be saw nothing to need relief at that particular
time. He knew Mr Maaaingham had not ordered nourish-
ment. Witness sat down to ask questions, when a dog flew
from under the bed at him. He jumped up very suddenly
and said that they should not keep such a dog in the place.
He asked a few questions. White got off the bed. Witness
said that he ought to make some effort, and said that he
(witness) was glad his wife was getting on well- Witness
then saw that he was partially drunk. Witness had often
seen White, and knew him to be of violent character, and
had heard him in the streets using bad language and quar-
relling and abusing his wife. He was a bad man, for wit-

ness had seen him a quarrelsome drunkard. Witness left
the house and White followed and laid hold of witness's
cloak. Witness had asked him over and over again for the
certificate of death, without which he could de nothing, and
he (witness) desired to get away from him, as he was not
really accountable—he was drunk. When White caught
hold of witness's cape he made a blow at witness, when the
latter, for his own protection, seized hold of his wrist. Nest
day witness got the ticket (produced) from Dr Massingham,
certifying that Ann White required tea, sugar, and oat •
meal. Witness gave that nourishment at White's house.
He also got a certificate of death and he gave a coffin, and
the child was buried by the parish, Jane Collins brought
him the certificate.

Ann Bradshaw said that she lived with Wm. White, She
had three children-11, 6, and 2 years respectively. She
made and sold six gross of fish baskets in Billingsgate
weekly. She paid 7s 6d for the materials for one gross and
sold the manufactured article at 9s. That was nct con-
stantly, however, as she could not get the stuff to make
them. The stuff was a flat rush that came from India. Th 4
r Runcieman
Iler husband had
tradee wi
nat so fwo t anbe
so
su, ts srioxo
nimonths t i 1
ot,laJ. year. it:
only laid down a few minutes Lefore, and he waa hot asleep
or drunk. What Mr Runcieman said about his being a
drunken, quarrelsome man was not true, and she could
bring neighbours to contradict bite, for they lived nine years
in the one house. Mr RurtCieman did not knock, but came
right into the room, There was no dog in. the room, but
there might have ..)een one in the yard, and she heard one
barking there.

CI oss-exam...aed by Mr Pearce—White never kicked wit-
ness. Bible lady nor any one else saw White drunk and
ill--using her. Witness got beef about three or four times
(about tlb each time) during the three weeks of her confine-
ment. She thought she ought to have got it oftener, or
when she got the bread, &c.
Mr Runcieman said he gave relief in kind on the recom-
mendation ot Dr Massinghana, although he said to the doc-
tor he thought it was not required. It was given for three
weeks, and then witness stopped it because he saw the
woman in a public-house. Ho reported the circumstance
to the guardians.
Ann Bradshaw said that was not true.
In answer to the Commissioner, Mr. Runcieman said that
she was not drunk. She was only taking a glass of beer,
The relief ceased by order of the guardians in consequence
of his report.
The book was put in, and it was stated in it that relief
was stopped because the woman was "not here."

31r. Runcieman stated that he should have reported if he
saw the woman out. lie did not mean to imply that there
was anything wrong in her going into the public-hous-, but
that she was quite well. The doctor had ceased to attend
her. She did not attend before the board, though she had
an order, and that alone wonld stop relief. He never used
bad language, or was unkind.
After other eidence,
The Commissioner said that reckless people like the-Whites
hardly deserved relief.
The inquiry was then declared to be closed.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

THE " SPECTATOR" ofc THE DARKENING HORIZON.
-- Ihe hone ma is darkening fast. Almost every in-
cident recorded this week points to a rapidly ap-
proaching crisis, the outbreak of that European war
which we have for five months foretold as certain if
.
England shrank from her clear duty of enforcing
justice as well as
peace. Had we fulfilled the Pre•
niter. s pledge, accepted the Swedish offer, and sent
ten regiments of the line to the Dannewerke as
proof that we were in earnest, there would have
been no war, and we should have dictated a compro-
mise which by doing justice at once to Denmark
and Germany would have removed all heartburn-
ings. The Ministry or the Court, whichever it was,
shrank from that just course, and now the nation
must pay the penalty which always falls on those
who will not submit to injustice, yet are not prompt
to demand redress. The Conference after two post-
ponements met at last on the 29th of April, but as
we predicted the very first proposal was made an
excuse for delay. The Germans, forsooth, had no
idea that any one would ask for an armistice, no
instructions whether to accept or reject it, and
though the telegraphs are in order waited three
days more. When the instructions arrived it was
discovered that they covered a great deal too much,
that Prussia in particular was striving to dictate
terms as to a conquered foe, and the consequent re-
monstrances furnished one more excuse for another
appeal for fresh orders. Conference therefore stands
postponed to Monday next, by which time we doubt
not Count Bernstorff will have the gout, or Herr
von Beust will be recalled to arrange pressing Saxon
business, or Gaunt Apponyi will feel it necessary to
Inquire at Vienna what he is to do if
the Prussian should chance to disagree with him.
The game now visibly playing is one of delay,
delay intended to allow Prussia to occupy all
Jutland, and Austria to send her fleet to the Baltic.
It the alli,s could but gain three clear weeks undis-
turb.-d, Jutland would be swept bare, Funen entered
by the Prussian army, and the Austrian fi:et an-
chored off Copenhagen. Fortunately for Denmark
and Europe, however, there are limits to the for-
bearance even of the British Government. it is clear
amidst all the guarded official statements that this
lastinsult overcame the Foreign Secretary's pati•
ence, end that Vienna has been, assured that if, in
spite of promises, the Austrian fleet quits the North
Sea the Austrian fleet will cease to exist. The
Aurora has been despatched to watch its progress,
and a squadron ready for action lies waiting in the
Downs. Austria, it seems probable, will on this
point give way to an irresistible mandate ; but the
collision has not tended to diminish the irritability
of diplomatists, or the inexplicable htt6gance and
security which aro expresses! tat Berlin, The official
j
compensation for all the expenses of a war of inva-
sion, journals of Prussia not only talk of the final absorp-
tion of Schleswig into Germiny, not only demand
bil
4.,
inform Germany that should the British
v_aet sail the Prussian Envoys will be at once with-
drawn. Marshal von Wrangel not only permits his
soldiery to ravage Jutland, but has demanded a
" requisition" after the fashion of Napoleon 1.," the
first instalment" being /96,000, and transported
the municipalities which objected to the extortion.
The fortifications of Fredericia are sentenced to
destruction, and in short the Prussians deal openly
with Denmark, upon which they havenever declared
war, as a conquered country. The chatter about the
Prince of Augustenburg, has entirely ceased, the
Prussian Chambers are silent and content with some
expected development, and if the signs visible on all
hands may be trusted, Herr von Biernark intends to
insist on terms which would make Holstein and
Schleswig and Jutland provinces of Prussia. As-
sured, as he thinks, that England will not inter-
fere, and prepared to defy France, he talks of the
"sacrifices made by the Monarchy" and the justice
of compensations as if already convinced that
Europe had sentenced Denmark. Arrogance of
this kind when manifested by the Minister of a
despotic State whose armies are in motion PO.llllB
almost invariably to war. These are serious signs,
but more serious still is the change which is pass.
i
ing over English opinion. Parliament is, as s usual
before action, quiet to apathy, just as audiences sit
hushed when the music tells them the denouement
is at hand ; but there is a kind of low growl coming
up audibly fram every side. Tne country is wearied
out. Originally very apathetic, almoat.
understand the quarrel, and full of traditional
peoplehave
be-
lief in Garman inertness, the English
the galla.nt
watched the incidents of the campaign,
resistance made by men in whom they recognise
unable. to
themselves, the needless slaughter for the sake o
military display, the cruel requisitions
upone
unre-
sisting
men who died defending
farmers, the yet more cruel insults pour
their own soil with
an ever-increasing indignation. men sympathise
acutely whenever they can entirely understand the
suffering, and there is not a country
gentleman in
England but reads of the destruction of homesteads
like Ravnhavn, the breaking up of parsonages, the
devastation of farms as like those of Lincolnshire
.n i Danish,. withs
the sharper
as if the people of Boston still
spore
a sense of personal pain. That Pain
because it is felt at last that there runs through
all these acts a spirit of insult tow.
towards England
as well as Denmark, that this country is being
humiliated in the face of the world. Though too
even
proud to be " susceptible," unable
should reset to
conceive why Prussians
monument recording a fair defeat, our countrymen
are not at heart delighted with others' scorn. A
feeling that it is almost time that words should give
the land,
i
place to action is spreading fast through
and will very speedily make itself heard n unmis-
takeable tones. The Cabinet, hampered by,a hun-
dred difficulties of which Parliament never talks,
has waited for support, and now . there is no course
of action, so be it decided, of which the country will
not approve. If France will join to secure the weak,
the alliance will be accepted with pleasure; but if
not, it is not from the Tuileries that England re-
ceives her orders. Finally, the tone of the Danes
will, wo suspect, accelerate the decision of states-
men. The politicians of Copenhagen
seem at last
to perceive that a great cause is in this world no
security against a great wrong, and are talking in
their despair of schemes as dangerous to Europe as
their annihilation would be. With Schleswig gone
and Jutland ravaged, the islands have scarcely a
political existence, and may as well reap the advan-
tages of their inevitable &Pendell". "We must,"
says M. Hall, through the Dagbla,det," apply direct
to Berlin," and terms cbtained from Berlin will in-
volve the permanent dependence of Denmark on the
great Power which grants it peace. Germany
ruling the Baltic—that is a change which may not
he dangerous, but which the older statesmen of
Eur pe, men like Lord Palmerston, who know that
unless the Baltic is free Russia is supreme in the
North, and like Napoleon, who remember that
Sweden is really an arm of France, will undoubtedly
hold to he so, With rulers alarmed and populations

irritated, a madman like Herr Von Bismark to drive
both to extremes, and English Princes accepting
Orders at the hands of a Prussian King, the horizon
on every side seems visibly closing in.
THE "LONDON REVIEW" ON POPE PITTS I:t.—
COURACIEOr!?. ALLOC,UTION ABOUT POLAND.—The
thunders of the Vatican have once more broken over
the head of an Emperor. The Pope, moved no
doubt by a high sense of duty, and by a profound
feeling of indignation at the wrongs inflicted by
the Czar upon the Roman Catholic population of
Poland, has just delivered a very remarkable allo-
cution in a consistory held at Rome. The unani-
mous voice of the civilised world will echo the
charge which he has solemnly brought against the
Sovereign of Russia-aethati after haidn,g driven his
subjects th insurrection, he is now endeavouring,
under the pretext of suppressing the rebelliee, te,
deprive them of all knot is characteristic of their
nationality, or endeared to them by political or re-
ligious feeling Consideing the persecution which
has ttodtebtetity been exercised in Poland against
the priests and proteseors of the Roman Catholic
religion, his Holiness would undoubtedly haveheen
wanting to his position had he not joined in that
general protest, which seems to be all that the world
can offer. by way of stemming the tide of ruthless
oppression. This allocution is not without political
importance, for it tends to keep alive in Roman
Catholic countries the animosity which recent events
have excited against Russia. Nor is it unmarked by
a degree of political courage, for which the Pope
deserves full credit. It will not be forgotten at
St. Petersburg, and if ever the question of main-
' taining the temporal power comes up for discussion
amongst European statesmen, it will probably exert
a material influence upon the policy of Russia.
Pius IX. could not bo blind to this probable effect
of his address : and he is therefore entitled to the
praise of having at least dared and risked something
for the sake of the unfortunate Poles—praise to
which no other European sovereign can put forward
the slightest claim.
THE " EXAMINER" ON STREET NUJSA.I4.,:cES.
We have to thank Mr. Bass for bringing in a bill to
protect the public against the noisy nuisances now
infesting the streets. The existing law requires
reasonable cause for the removal of vagabonds
playing on grind organs, or brass instruments of
torture. But magistrates differ as to reasonable
cause, and Justice Midas is of opinion that no one
can :have reason to complain of the sweet sounds
from a decayed hurdygurdy, or the alternations of
grunts and squeaks of a brass band, Another
magistrate thinks only sickness or mathematics
reasonable cause. A third holds the right opinion
that the streets should be kept to their right uses—
traffic,and that there is reasonable cause for stopping
the conversion of them into orchestras, or we should
rather say, places of abominable discord. What
Mr. B iss proposes is to extend protection to serious
occupations which will not bear interruption ; but,
as Sir F. Crossley observed, people have a right to
something more, and ought to be allowed to live
in the houses they pay for in peace and quiet. Be-
cause a householder happens not to be a calculating
machine, he is not to be tormented with noises from
day break to midnight. Ho has a right to as much
quiet as consists with the necessary traffic of the
streets. There is a time for all things, and the
choicest music intruded upon the ear at every hour
of the day would be intolerable, much more so the
drone of hackneyed tunes by decayed organs, or the
grunts and squeaks of a herd of filthy German
swine. Unhappily, nature has provided no defence
against this crying evil. We can shut our eyes
against disagreeable sights, we can stop our noses
against bad smells, but cannot stop our ears against
the assaults of discordant sounds. The sense of
hearing is completely at mercy, and no mercy is
shown it in this vast, ill regulated town. In Paris
street music is suffered on no pretext, and if people
choose to have it it must be in their houses or court-
yards. And our own Legislature has admitted the
principle that some consideration is due to the ears
in suppressing the dustmen's bell ; but what was
the annoyance of that bell to the detestable noises
that have succeeded it ? and the bell was not ring-
ing every where from sunrise to midnight. The
street nuisance is defended in Parliament by two
lineal descendants of Midas, Sir John Shelley and
Lord Fermoy, and on Mr. Bass's motion the latter
brayed a bray that the attempt was to suppress
street music, and to interfere with the recreation of
the people. The people, in the common sense of
the went, have no interest in the matter. The brass
bands and organs, the Savoyard and German vaga-
bonds, are not to be found in the alleys and courts,
but in the squares and handsome streets. The Ger-
man gangs are not paid in pence, but in silver and
gold. If your wife or daughter is on a sick bed, or
your mot! er dying, you cannot buy her quiet at a
less price ti au half a-sovereign. The organs are
more moderato in their extortions, in proportion as
their power of annoyance is lees, but you must pay
both, and all day long. There is a gang of Ger-
man boys that has carried extortion to great per-
fection by having instruments excruciatingly out
of tune. Their activity is as great as their discord
is intolerable, and they make themselves heard,
detested, end dreaded in every part of the town.
Yet there are people who mistake even this per-
formance for music, and who reward and encourage
it, 89 that the trade is doubly profitable, chiefiy
by extortion, partly by ministering to a vulgar,
vicious taste. A musician, noticing that
the band by which he was tormented al-
ways played its false notes in the same places,
called the leader into the house the other day,
gave him wine, complimented him on the good
playing of his band (whereat he looked uneasy), and
added, I have especially admired the skill and re-
gularity with which you introduce your discords.
" Ah," said the street bandmaster with a knowing
look, "zat is our business. It is by zat we live." A
Persian Ambassador on his first visit to the opera
was in raptures with the band when tuning the in-
struments, but when they commenced the overture
to " Figaro," he said, " This is pocr stuff indeed, but
what they commenced with was celestial music."
There are folks with this sort of taste, and who
really like discords when they pierce their dull ears
with a sharp shriek. Some of the Germans, it must
be admitted, play well, but the greater number are
mere horn-blowers, or else they know that it mat-
ters not for profit whether they play well or ill, for
that certain ears are well pleased with bad as with
good music, and that others are to be tortured into
buying off their tormentors. It is curious to ob-
serve the parts of the town of which complete pos-
session is oaken by the nuisance-mongers. Aristo-
cratic Dover-street is devoted to them—organs,
brass bands, disgusting fellows with blacked faces
grimacing and bawling negro melodies, are to be
found in that unhappy street at all hours of the day.
We have a suspicion that there is something more
than extortion in this disgraceful phenomenon, and
that Fermoys and Shelleys abound in that locality,
and do not care to disguise the long ears that have
come down to thew, and attest the ancient quarrel
with Apollo.
THE " SATURDAY REVIEW" ON PRINCE NAPO-
LEON.—Prince Napoleon enjoys a very curious
position. He has all the advantages of the empire,
and none of its drawbacks. Purple and fine linen,
the obsequiousneesiof courtiers, and the admiration
of all whose admiration is stimulated by interest,
surround him from morning to night. And yet he
can do and say what he pleases. If the worst comes
to the worst, and he has been very indiscreet, he has
only to feel a scientific ardour, and set off in his
yacht on some exploring expedition, till his rash-
ness has been forgotten. He is a man who has strong
feelings, and strong likes and dislikes, who chooses
his associates as he fancies them, and espouses heartily
a cause to which he attaches himself. And yet, how-
ever dangerous may be his friends, and however
compromising may be his opinions, he still can speak
boldly out, and utter words which no other royal
person in Europe could utter without giving offence
and seeming false to his order. He is a democrat,
almost a red democrat,and he talks as democratically
and as red as he likes without any one stopping him.
Various causes combine to give him this position.
He is an able man, and is said to be the only human
being of whom the Emperor is afraid. Then he re-
sents one side of Imperialism in a very marked way
and helps to persuade France and Europe that, in
one sense, the Emperor is nothing but a crowned
democrat. The Emperor has far too much sympathy
with his cousin to wish to dissociate himself wholly
from a speaker who is, to some extent, the chief of
the revolutionary party. Perhaps the Emperor
knows that much of what the Prince says is imme-
diately set down as mere vapouring, and ho may not
be sorry to contrast the importance which is attached
to everything he himself says with the indifference
that is frequently bestowed on the strongest utter-
ances of his cousin. Perhaps, too, the Emperor likes
to use the Prince sometimes as an instrument by
which he may gauge public opinion, and chooses to
encourage or permit the extravagances of his cousin
in order that he may know how far there is any
substantial change creeping over the surface of
French political thought. But at the same time the
Prince holds an independent position of his own. He
is not the mere passive tool of the Emperor. nor is he
the mere impotent mouthpiece of cleverer and
more unscrupulous democrats than himself. He is
allowed to say what he does because it would be so
hard to stop him without causing a rupture
in the Imperial family, which the Emperor is
anxious above all things to avoid. The Prince, too,
knows what ho is about. He sticks by a set of
ideas which have already some power in Europe,
and which may have more. He is all for what
Garibaldi calls the fated cause of the peoples. And
his very position gives him a weight, when he
talks about fated causes, which no other adherent
of fated causes can have. For no one can be quite
certain that the Emperor is not speaking through
him, and a very slight accident might mike it, of