The Sun.
London, England, 1852-06-04 00:00:00

Given in the Camp of Punta Arena, Dec. 13, 1851.

HEROISM ON THE TIGHT-ROPE.
(From Punch.)
Poor old Madame Segall How many of us can look
a long, long way..—we will not think how long—back,
when that marvellous woman stood, the centre, the
human speck of a burning Vauxhall-star—who shall
say how many feet above the earth? Madame
Segni ! Marvellous, indeed, were the wonders of
Vauxhall ! The millions of lights that made dim
the very story-books, and gave to childhood
an actual knowledge, a reathing experience of glories
and effulgences, that made e.ven &abed poor and colour-
less. The Arabian Nights! Could they be anything
liko that night—our first night—in Vauxhall Gardens;
a night whase wonders were crowned by tbat astounding
Frenchwoman, Madame Segni! There she stood iu
turning state, with balls of red and blue fire rising and
breaking like a thousand bubbles about her—sad rained
upon by- geldfin shQwers; showers that seemed a real, en-
during si ealth!

And Madame Saqui—having, like a spider, ran a long
thread of lifo—jumped to the ground fall of ready money.
Sh a had foregone the rope, and resolved to walk the
earth, when—

" Her brother," says the Patric—
" Who was the manager of the Rouen Theatre, was on
the point of becoming bankrupt, with debts amounting to
600,0001, and to save his credit, Madame Sequi paid the
whole amount, and reduced herself to poverty."
Well, with a heavier load of years upon her -should-
ers, the devoted sister had her shoes chalked once more,_
and once more mounted the rope, balancing and dancing
away, bat somehow not • dancing fortune back to her.
However, she managed to save some 30,0001. in Spain;
but as Spaniards rarely suffer so much to leave their
country, shy was stripped by banditti—by fellows who
deserved 'every loch of the rope by which the money
had been earned—tripped of every sou.
And now, hero she is again! Here is the poor old
woman—aged 75—once more on the tight-rope, danciag
for. bread ar. the hippodrome, in Paris!
Reader, does not that old rope dancer teach a touch-
ing lesson? , Is she not in her wrinkles a noble object of
self-devotion? Poor old soul! She may dance—dancing
on a rope, with seventyfive scars upon her head!—
dance amidst showers of fireworks—but there is a halo
of goodness brighter than 13:ng,11 lights, more radiant
than " golden drops."
Granted, it mcv be possible to find selfishness even
upon a throne. May it not be equally possible to beho!d
self•aacrifice even upon a rope?

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A PROPHET IN DIFFICULTIES.
Considerable curiosity has been excited at Blois and
preaching
in the neighbourhood for. some monthspast by the
preaching a person called the "Prophet of Id &tee-
teas," and by bin alleged cure of several diseases, and
that his proceedings made so much noir) that they
attracted the alentlea of the
raiubthorities, and he was in
February lest tried by the Tribunal
Po-
lice of Rome:grain, on the charge of having outraged the
and illegayerpraetised medicine. He
anal of Correctional
Catholic religion,
a the chare and
was then acquitted of the form'
fined 16f. on the latter. The Pmaillidt:erakrdose.cutor appsaleti
wens quashed
agoA. before
trial
against this judgment as too
by the Court of Appeal of the dist;i3cyt.sit
was ordered, andlt took place three
Tribunal of Correctional Police of Blois. The accused
accompanied by his wife and daughter, and all three
were respectably dressed. His name is Chesnan, and he
is possessed of property which brings him in ten thou-
sand francs a.year. He carried a large Bible in his
hand. Several witnesses proved that he had preached
in his own house, and had afterwards administered
a sort of sacrament, by handing round pieces
of bread in a plate, and a glass of wine,
making his congregation eat and drink, and saying as
they did so, "Eat, for this my body—drink, for
this is my blood!' It was also stated that in his
sermons he had declared that he recognised neither the
Virgin nor the-Saints; that he did not admit the sacra-
ment of marriage, or that of confession; and that if the
priests were to marry, there would be fewer prostitutes and
bastards. All this constituted the "outrage to religion"
complained of; and to prove the charge of having illegally
exeroised medicine, several witnesses were called, who
admitted that he had cured them of pains and different
maladies, by rubbing them with water or oil ; but
they declared that he had taken no money fcr his
services, and on dismissing them had said; " Go end
pray to God!" One man stated he had been cared
by the accused of a malady in the eyes, for which
ISS had long been unsuccessfully treated by regular
Physicians, and another who was lame, and obliged
uae
.crutches, said that, after having been four
times" in the hospital without obtaining relief, the
itece!ed had completely cured him. When called on
for h
eis defence,oha..o _.. the accused said, " With respect to the
i ttioz_ °t having outraged religion, I might be silent if
r ' w'ere Concerned bat to tranquillistethe conecieace
1,1(14 ytlftte3ll:l_ liev
!•enbeers, its i necessary that I should speak:
belong to vtiL ..,,tella me to explain to you why Ido not
reedernoworsiralen Catholic Church. I admit that I
chapter 20, versoP to tsints, and I justify myself by Exodus,
i, that he could tot 3.
The President told the defendant
f of theology, bat thillaw the Court to be made a school
()barge by a text from aeouaecl answered, " I reply to your
bin Bible, he mad, teeTtaodus chapter 20," and opening
God pronounced these words,
saying.
, Thou shalt have ea
' he added, „
teen() other Gods before me." " I
that Mary was purb °guise your saints, but I admit
do_ not,
when she eo •
velope wad required to cooei
him neeived. A pure en-
source of all good. ", u
But it , who was to be the
I could have wished to
ma_
Cage my fellow-creatures
the President, " of having ootro-te0.1,1 are accused," said
legally established in Franco, blr ;EwaodfeFm of worship
ment.' " Whenever I administered Yt the sacra-
-1 took the Bible, and read Matthew, chapter the sacrament,
26, verse 26,
'Jesus took the bread., and after ho had
brake it, and gave it to his disciples blessed it, he
of ' ng Take
at le
I recited the " to say,
follow my example.
but that w words, ands
put them in practice,
" uo de-
rision on my part. What !" cent'
limed he . i
with
some energy, "tae blind see, the deaf hear,
ear,'
the paralytic are cured, and you think that /
, ,
,oan do all
that in the name of evil and wituous faiths , „ aut,,
said the President, "You have charged the priests with
doing nothing without money.„ "'only read Matthew,
chspter 23, which says, `You shall be Punished, Phari-
sees--"' " You compare, then, priests to Pharisees?" +.I
;only said that any one who makes a traffic of prayer is sat
evangelical." "You impute thet traffic to the clergy?'.
" To blame the fact is not to blame the intention. I do not
accuse the priests. My words her) been Wisely la.