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this reason, probably, that so curious a resemblance
will be foiand between all his budget speeches, con-
sidered simply as rhetorical exercises. This is not
the only respect in which Mr. Gladstone hears some
likeness to the" heaven-born minister." Unlike him
in manner, he is like him in clear roundness of enun-
ciation, and like him in persuasivess of tone. Such
parallels are often interesting to trace, even when
perfect exactness is unattainable. Thus, in his modes
of thought and choice of words, Mr. Disraeli ap-
proaches more nearly than any modern speaker to
Canning, though he, again, is very different
from him in manner ; and as far as regards vigour,
readiness, and beautiful clearness of style, Lord
Derby is the nearest copy of Fox which we can pro.-
duce. Burke has no close parallel among us now,
nor has Grattan; unless we can conceive Mr. Roe-
b ick in his best moments, to bring back in some
faint degree, the " drawling but fiery" sentences of
the great Irishman. It need hardly be added that
he in no degree resembles him in the exquisite music
of cadence, in which Grattan stands among all ora-
tors supreme.
EXAMINER—In the " Wreck Ashore," when
Magog the beadle is prostrate on the stage in:help-
less drunkenness, his friend urges him to get up,
upon which Magog hiccups out, " It is all very easy
to say get up, but the question is, how do you do
it ?" And in this will be Sambo's question upon
the President's exhortation to him to rise and take
his liberty. The problem is made the more per-
plexing by the injunction to abstain from
violence. So in the French illustration of
barren gifts; the father makes his little son a pre-
sent of a drum, saying, "Go and amuse yourself
with your toy, but only mind to make no noise."
But there is an important qualification to the in-
junction against violence, and it is the permission
to resort to it in self-defence, a case that must arise
whenever the slave, in assertion of his freedom, re-
fuses obedience to his master's command, and is
threatened with punishment for his rebellion. And
here we come to the object of the Proclamation, an
object, however, which does not seem a jot promoted
by it. For if slavery be the bitter condition we believe
it to be, the slave with power to break his bonds will
not wait for a permission. If he feels his wrong
he will seize his rights, when he has the force to do
so, without leave or licence. He did so in St. Do-
mingo in a way that horrified the world. But in
St. Domingo the black population immensely out-
numbered tho white. In the Southern States the
case is reversed, and the white population almost as
three to one to the black, and superior even more
by the habit of domination than physical force.
What, then, does the Proclamation for the slave ?
It gives him no assistance, no sanction for seizing
his liberty, for he wants no sanction if he believes
himself as a human being entitled to his own body.
To borrow a French metaphor, it forces an open
door. Where there are the disposition and power
to rebel they would have their course without the
President's instigation; and where those things are
not the Proclamation will not create them. No
slave will feel himself a jot the better for the Pre-
sident's Proclamation of his freedom, which to him
is a practical lie. " Thank you for nothing" will be
his sentiment ; but, on the other hand, how bitter
must be the feeling of the blacks in the loyal States
whose bondage is rivetted expressly to reward their
taskmasters. These are the people to whom lessons
against resort to violence should be addressed, for
they must need them, unless their patience and
endurance exceed those of the fabled Uncle
Tom. The philanthropic Mr. Sumner's view of
the purpose of the Proclamation is doubt-
less the true one —" to light a fire in
the rear." So some years ago, in Ireland, rapacious
savages would put a woman on the red-hot grate to
extort the secret of her hiding-place for valuables.
And though the Proclamation may not serve to in-
stigate an insurrection, for which the blacks are not
strong enough, it may serve here and there to incite
to domestic treachery and occasional rape, robbery,
and murder, which will shake the security of the
Confederates, oblige them to look at home, and dis-
pose them to distrust of their negroes, and propor-
tionate severity in the treatment of the suspected.
Whatever there may be bad in the feelings and dis-
positions of masters and slaves will be rendered
worse by that malignant document. It will fall far
short of its aim, but not without much revolting
mischief.

LAW TIMES.—It has been long ago ascertained
that crimes vary with the seasons, not only in num-
ber, but in character. Thus there is a greater
amount of crime in the winter quarters and a greater
number of apprehensions in the summer quarters;
the absence of light tempts to offences by the faci-
lity for escape. But we learn that, although 1 in
134 of the whole population is a known criminal,
in only a trifle more tha❑ half the crimes committed
is the criminal caught. In each of the winter quar-
ters the proportion of crimes to detection were 52
per cent,; in the summer quarters 56 and 53 per
cent. respectively. This, too, is only the propor-
tion of apprehensions to crimes; the convictions are
fewer still, as will be seen hereafter. It must be
borne in mind that the crimes now under conside-
ration are only those graver ones that are indict-
able ; all that large class disposed of summarily by
magistrates are excluded, and will be the subjects
of separate review in a future article. Now turn
we to the localities of crime. The murders in 1861
were 106, being 7 more than in 1860. Of these 10
were in the metropolitan police district ; in Lanca-
shire, 11; in Staffordshire, 9; in Gloueesterehire, 7 ;
in Devon, Warwickshire, and the West Riding of
Yorkshire, 5 each; in Somerset and Southampton,
4 each ; in Cheshire, Durham, Kent, and Lincoln,
3 each ; in Cambridgeshire, Northumberland, Suf-
folk, Surrey, and Westmoreland, 2 each ; 15 cowl.
ties had but one ; there were 9 in the whole of
Wales; and 14 counties were free from the crime.
For these 106 murders 128 persons were appre-
hended, and 90 committed for trial. The conceal.
ment of births were 151, of which 97 were reported
by the county police, 34 by the borough police, 20
in the metropolis. The number for the preceding
year had been 147, the number in the metropolis
having been precisely the same as in 1861. Bur-
glary is increasing. In 1860 the police reported
2,221 cases, in 1861 they numbered 2,791 ; of these
48 per cent. were in the counties and 51 per cent.
in the boroughs.

The number of vessels which entered the port of
Monaco during the year 1862 was 918, and that of the
visitors to the town during the same period 16,092.

The Salut Public of Lyons, in speaking of the
approaching arrival of Mme. la Marechale Canro-
bert in that city, states that the Hotel Varissan, in which
the Marshal resides, is considerably out of repair, "It has,
however," observes that journal, "a fine garden and noble
trees. The famous Blanchet painted the ceilings, particu-
larly that of the dining room, on which was the following
motto, 'Ni regret du passe, ni pour de l'avenir I' After the
death of the last of the Varissans, which took place some
years before the Revolution, the hotel was appropriated suc-
cessively to various public services; it was inhabited by the
Prefects of the Rhone up to the period when the offices and
the apartments of the Prefecture were removed to the Cloitre
des Jacobins, In 1822 the city purchased the building and
r appropriated it to the residence of the general commanding
the military division. On that occasion internal changes
and repairs were commenced, which have been continued
down to the present time. Nothing now remains of the
paintings of Blanchet, which were sold by auction, Mme.
Canrobert will have a deal to do to impart elegant life to
that terrace of the Rue de Bourbon, on which the Count de
Castellano was accustomed to walk up and down alone, with
all the regularity of a sentinel on duty. Varissan, the ori-
ginal proprietor of the hotel, was grandson of a notary, who
acted for the Chapter of Lyons, who at the period of the
occupation of the city by the Baron des Adrets in 1562,
concealed in a well in the Rue de Bceuf the titles and some
relics of the Prituatial Church. The Chapter, among other
marks of its gratitude, conceded to the Varissans the privi-
lege of having the great bell of St. Jean tolled at the death
of any member of his family. By a coincidence worthy of
remark, the successive occupants of the hotel of the Rue
Boissat have generally enjoyed a similar right in virtue of
their high functions. The great bell, which rang out for
the last Varissans, was also tolled for Marshal de Castellano.

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