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" The life of this great man, so instructive for soldiers,
rulers, and politicians, contains a lesson also for citizens. It
teaches them that they ought never to abandon their coun-
try to the power of one man, no matter who he may be, no
matter under what circumstances. This is the cry that
springs from my heart, the sincere wish I utter, as I con-
clude this long history of our triumphs and our reverses,
and which I hope will penetrate the heart of every French-
man, and persuade him never to sacrifice his liberty, nor
run the risk of doing so, by abusing it."
Whon inscribing those words at, the close of his
Great History of the Consulate and Empire of
France under Napoleon—as a sculptor with chisel
and mallet graves his name upon the pediment of
a colossal statue he himself is conscious of being his
masterpiece—M. Thiers here affixes more than his
name—he affixes indelibly the brand of his political
principles, amounting in their intensity almost to a
passion, to the life of his life—affixes the brand of
hie political principles, epitomised in that one Cry
for Liberty—at the close of his luminous as well as
voluminous annals of the Rise and Fall, the Life
and Death, the Glory and Genius of the Great
Napoleon.

ANCIENT 87.REET PAGEANTS ON LORD

MAYOR'S .DAY.

The Drapers, at Sir Robert Clayton's show in
1679, diversified their pageant with allegorical re-
presentations of the twelve months of the year.
They were displayed in front of a moving stage,
symbolising the mystery of a Golden Ram, " backed
by a pretty rider, being a beautiful boy, with such
features, complexion, and symmetry of limbs, that
he might have prevailed with Medea, as far as
Jason did, when he obtained the golden fleece."
A shepherdess, richly habited, bearing in one hand
a gilded crook, and in the other the City banner,
made an appropriate speech to the Lord Mayor.
The concluding pageant exhibited a landscape of
Salisbury-plain, where shepherds were feeding and
folding their flocks; and for the Drapers' delight,
hero were several trades met together, all pertinent
for making of cloth—as carders, dyers, spinners,
woolcombers, shearers, dressers, frillers, and wea-
vers, which were not without order, because the
excellence of the scene " did consist in confusion."
c, They could not work in their distinct arts, yet
they had assembled to rejoice in dancing, piping,
and singing, to pay their compliments to the new
Lord Mayor, and service to the Worshipful Drapers'
Company.

1699. Sir John Levett, Haberdasher and Mayor,
amongst other costly displays, had a stately chariot,
all enriched with embossed work' of silver, driven
upon four golden eatherine wheels, in which was
seated St. Catherine, patroness of the honourable
company. It was drawn by two large Indian goats,
argent—being the supporters of the Company.
Than followed a scenic pageant called "
The Factory
of Commerce," consisting of a stage, representing
shops—as milliners, hosiers, hatters, cappers, and
other branches of the haberdashery trade. As the
Lord Mayor made his speech, "
to a rich throne and replied to h
several papers Cinio7nAerectehdeepsacegnedaendt
went by, tobacco
Clothworkers'
owere given
amongst the
pageant represented London in allegory, which
changed to the Garden of the Hesperides with Jason
and the Golden Fleece. Then came the chariot of
Apollo, drawn by golden griffins, the Company's
supporters, and while Apollo addressed the Lord
Mayor, " a rich figure of a rising sun, above ten
feet in diameter, appeared at the back of the car
with all his beams displayed in gold." The a trade
pageant" expressed the whole art and mystery of
the Clothworkers, the chief figure being Jack of
Newbury, a famous Berkshire clothier.
1702. The Vintners, at Sir Samuel I)ashwood's
show, set forth their patron saint, St. Martin, " on
a stately white steed, richly plumed and capari-
soned, himself splendidly armed cap-a-pie, having
a large mantle of scarlet, who was followed by
cripples and beggars seeking charity, and twenty
satyrs dancing before him with tambors, a great
escort with music, ten old Roman lictors in silver
head-pieces, with axes and fusces, came to St.
Paul's-churchyard, and there standing still, the saiut
cut his mantle in pieces with his sword and gave
each mendicant a part." The author of this pa
which
geant
speaks of it as a resurrection of the splen
formerly shined forth at the City festival, but had
now almost " dropt into oblivion."—City Press.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 10, 1862.

Again we hear from America of the preparations
for the great battle, which has been fought by this
time, at New York. The Potomac seems half
forgotten in the governorship of New York, the
clash of arms in the clash of party speeehes. Ame-
rica is a land of excitement, but we do not remem-
ber any one greater than that which now seems to
have animated both sides in the struggle between
the Democrats and Republicans in the " Empire
State and city." Which side has won we cannot
pretend to conjecture. In the city of New York the
Democratic party, comprising the Irish and all the
rowdyism of the city, are understood to be in a
majority, but the respectable and substantial yeo-
manry of the 'Mate are Icao-yrool,so to bo 000artvantly
Republican. Our contemporary the Vines has
for once espoused the cause of American Democracy
it seems to think Democracy Conservative just now.
And so it is if rabid antipathy to negroes and
equally fervid attachment to slavery be Conserva-
tism. Our Conservatives, here, would hardly, we
should think, relish the associates thus given them
in the New World. There can be little doubt that
the Democratic party, although containing nume-
rous respectable men—General M'CLELLAN for in-
stance—does yet comprise all the blackguardism of
the North ; indeed owes its strength to that part
of its forces. As liberals we feel but too glad to be
rid of any connection with the Democratic party,
for though we well know, ourselves, that all our
sympathies, so far as they belong to any party,
inust go with the Republicans, we might have na-
turally expected that our opponents here, relying
on words merely, would have taunted us with the
name of Democrats. We own ,however, "no connec-
tion with that party over the way"—or the water ;
and are perfectly willing to see them adopted by
the Times and Toryism.
The real importance of the struggle in New York
lies in this—if the Democrats succeed it will be a
vote of rebuke to Mr. LINCOLN and the Cabinet,
for Unit mode of carrying on the war. The Demo-
crats dare not, though they are suspected of a
different feeling, avow themselves hostile to the
war; but they insist that it shall be on behalf of a
Union precisely what the old one was. The Union
men, desire a Union " as it ought to be," by which
they doubtless mean one which should afford no
reason for a second secession—one therefore from
which the slavery question was in some way got
rid of —one which should either abolish slavery
entirely, or definitely pronounce that the terri-
tories should not be open to emigrants with
their slaves from the slave States. This after
all is the real point of difference between
the two sections of the country. The North
and the South could work well together so long as
:he South carried two points, which indeed resolve
themselves into one—the election of a President,
by the aid of the Democratic (Tory) party in the
North, and the consequent working of the constitu-
tion in favour of the, extension of slavery. While,
" the It.st case, they could have a BLCHANAN
who would do, all that a President could do to make
R3nsas, perforce,,, a slave State, and a supremo
C2llvt to pronounce dec;:sions in favour of the slave
'3t'itea and slaveholders, and a Secretary of Stat e
who
for
r'"Illd store the Southern arsenals to be ready
ev°lte--while things went on this, and all the
vower of oat, ,u
th e slave %t,te: tlio: was enlisted in the service of
No
sooner latter and the Democrats were
cantslnt.
eiectionthdoes the other party carry a
presideuts
er,n the South refuses to remain
in Union. It sorely
never be effaced from the
recollection of inivirtiaa English
spectators—that
no actual grievance, not a sing lo
stretch of power on the part of N
illegality—not
LIN COLN beganealit7—n°t one
w
this bloody secession. It began
and the only pretext for it was, the opinion
riß. IJ
aioCIIANAN,
President elect that the unoccupiedt-11 of the
Union ought not to be colonised by slavery,
of
Every
I.wail means of opposing, this opinion of his remaineri
fully open .to them, but no, nothing would do but
would b'ever the mselvea in perpetuity from a
their
field that Free soil ought to remain
President who

free!
Hence, also, has arisen the reasonable charge,
• contradicting the
which the Times represents as
that Z,i; was the work
alleged grounds of secession,
of a few unprincipled politicians, The tglrge quite
squares with that of secession for slavery extOsion•
" The unprincipled" junta of Southern poatielli.ns
used the President's opposition to extension of

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slavery as their battle cry. The slaveholderfi gene-
rally were roused by the appeal to their fanaticimfl for
the Divinity of their domestic institution, and its
consequent right to dominate the Union. But we
believe there is truth in the statement, that but for
a few unprincipled men—JEFFERSON DAVIS,
MASON, SLIDELL, YANCEY, and some others—who
desired to rule somewhere, and who found that they
had lost the loaves and fishes of their ambition at
at Washington, there would have been no secession
and no war. So far from the statement of slavery
and the ambition of these politicians as joint
causes of the secession war, being
absurd, both
causes were equally essential. Without i fanatcism
for the Divinity of slave institutions, the ambition
of the politicians could never have persuaded men
of the advantage of breaking up an obviously ad-
vantageous Union ; without the ambition of the
politicians the slo.veholders would have found none
sufficiently sold to the powers of darkness, to have
headed a battle for the most infernal object ever
fought for between civilized and Christian nations.
We believe this to be the impartial statement of
he case.

Meantime, by the advices just received, the war

in the PRESIDENT'S hands is not flagging. We

read of a forward movement of M'CLELLAN, of
attacks on the Confederates in South Carolina

and of an expedition preparing for Texas, the pore

of which, Galveston, the Confederates have evacua•

ted. It is impossible far us, indeed it seems to be
so for the Federals, to ascertain whether
the Confederates are moving from the
Potomac—it seems, however, quite certain that
M'CLELLAN is getting all his forces to the
Southern side of the River. At Charleston the
Federal object was to get possession, in order to
destroy it, of the railway between that city and
Savannah. It seems the attack was successful at
first, and some little damage done to the railway,
but the Confederates, reinforced, drove them back
to the shelter of their gunboats with heavy loss.
The Federals, with rare exceptions, can do nothing
in the way of surprises, like STONEWALL JACK-
soN and STUART. The Federals have been block-
ading Charleston all this time, and yet have not
been able to touch an important railway only
nine miles from the sea: The projected attack
on Texas seems desirable enough, if only the
Federals had troops to spare. The Union ele-
ment, in that half free State, domineered
over by a small number of slaveholders, is very
strong ; the German planters are numerous and
bitterly opposed to slavery. If the Federals can
but establish their hold there, they will soon be
masters of the state, through the aid which they
will find within it. The consequences of detaching
Texas from the Confederacy would be very im-
portant. The object of the Confederates, is to sepa-
rate from the Union, and ultimately to extend their
sway over Mexico and Central America,—to cover
the whole with slavery. Texas, so feloniously
wrested from Mexico for that purpose, is their step-
ping stone in that direction. To emancipate Texas
therefore would be to interpose a vast terri-
tory, large enough to form several states
between the new confederation and Mexico and the
farther South, and would be a natural step towards
confining a slave confederation within the smallest
limits, should the South succeed in forming a con-
federacy, at all. The only objection to the plan,
therefore, is, that the North has already more
armies in the field than it can adequately support

and reinforce.
We observe, however, that the season for the
North is rapidly approaching. Their gunboats,
which they have been building vigorously, will
again be able to support their armies. Kentucky
they have already cleared of the guerilx.c
which have infested it. Tennessee will be
cleared in like manner. The Confederate
Iguerillas are, indeed, said to be showing
themselves near Memphis, but we suspect, after the
account the Confederates have themselves fur-
nished us of the disastrous results of ROSENCRANZ
victory at Corinth, that they have little chance
again in that quarter. Four or five days, however,
may bring us very important information both from
New York and the armies of the West. If the
Democrats triumph it will probably be some check
to Mr. LINCOLN; if ROSENCRANZ continue to
triumph, the whole of Tennessee will be as secure
for the North as Kentucky now is. If Texas,
Lousiania, and Arkansas follow, the South will be
pretty well hedged in on the North and West.

At last we have Mr. PARTRIDGE'S revised
opinion as to, the state of the wound and of the
health of General GARIBALDI. And simultaneously
with the publication of this fresh, and we trust
final, because most encouraging opinion, as to the
condition of the Hero, come tidings of GARIBALDI'S
removal from Spezzia to Pisa—from a bad to a
good, climate, from a humid to a dry and genial at-
mosphere. Everything in truth just now looking
most encouragingly to the friends of the wounded
Condottiere. Professor PARTRIDGE'S newly-issued
report we are disposed to regard as in a very great
measure conclusive. It is certainly not conclusive
in regard to the question as to bullet or no bullet.
But as to the exceeding probability, the all but cer-
tainty of the Hero's recovery, it is so confident in its
assurances that we do really feel disposed to accept
it, we repeat, as conclusive. About the existence of
the ball then in the wounded ankle of GARIBALDI the
English surgeon speaks now rather more doubtfully
thanhat he
did. Upon this point, it is curious to mark
what is actually the present state of the evidence.
M. NELATON it may be remembered upon the day
immediately preceding the late consultation of no
less than
a an
probe, sm
. examined the wound
with
rseventeen
with
tii doctors,
which,
a
Mr. PARTRIDGE'S
report now intimates, he " believed that he detected
a hard substance which he declared to be the ball
about an inch from the orifice." That was on the 28th
October--the day
prior to the consultation. Upon
the 29th of October, the day upon which the seven-
teen doctors assembled together around the bed of
GARIBALDI (among these doctors the very man who
had expressed that opinion, 2.. e. Dr. NELATON ),
"M. PORTA, the experienced and distinguished
surgeon of Pavia, made a searching examination
nger round
with his little finger thrust forcibly and deeply into
the wound; but, though he turned the fi
in every direction, no bullet could be detected,
showing that M. Nelaton was mistaken in sup-
posing that he felt the ball within an inch of the
orifice of the wound—in fact, the bullet has never
\
yet been felt by anyone, nor has its presence and
whereabouts been determined by actual demon-
stration." It is true, as Mr. PARTRIDGE adds,
" M. PIROGOFF thought that the ball might be
lodged deeply in the lower joint of the greater and
lesser bones of the leg (the inferior tibio fibular arti-
culation), and he based this opinion on the greater
width (three-quarters of an inch, measured by a pair
of callipers) between tho ankle of the sound and of
hunsound foot; but the puffy condition (oedema)
of
the parts about the joint, caused probably by
the severe
the difference, and the most careful
examination of the 29th, accounted to
my mind for
and
examination
abort
ure with the fingers in
various situations I
the articulation failed to
I detect any hard substance indicate ,or to the pre-
Benc e of matter, norcould any matter be ax.,
from e wound pressure
„truded the by at the sup-
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