The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-20 00:00:00

TriE SITN,

hAILSEIAM, J LILY 19.—Our maraei was steady to-day,
and prices were well supported. Beef, from 3s 6d to
4s 2d; Mutton. 4s 2d to Gs; Lamb, 5s to 5s 6d; Veal,;
3s 8d to 4s ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 4d pe03110.;
AP.UNDEL, Juts .18.—We 41,..)s*Oailyinquiry to-
day, on the following terms,,:.--tneef, from 3s 6d to 4s ;
Mutton, 4s to ss;• Lamb,-; Gs to Gs Gd; Veil', 3s 8d to
4s 2d per Sibs.
CnicitxrrEtti Jidt.r 19.--There was a good-supply of
stock this day, asvel:More. business was done thatvlakt
market. Beef, ffom.3s, 8d to .45 6d; Muttont; 4, ="2d to
Sa_; Lamb, 55.4 d to 5s 8d; and Veal, 45 61 to-ii 3d per
Sibs. Sucking Calves, 12s to 291.104,078iorePigs, 14s
to 20s each.

COAL SA.ItitT.—YESTERrIAY.
Bates West HalleP..i4s Od Killingworth l4s Od
Huddle's W. kratradyl:: 14s 6dlEden Main lss 3d
Davison'sWeialartley 14s 6dßelmout lss 3d
Zest Adairs Main..... 128 Odi Bell
16s 3d
Hosting's Hartley l4s Od,Haswell
16s Od
Bolywell Main ... l4s 3d iletton ....
New Tanfield ............ 12s 6d Lambton
North Percy Hartley.. 14s Od Russell's Hetton
15s 3(1
.....• 15s 6d
Ord's' Redheugh
Tanfield Moor ....
Tanfield Moor Butes l2s Gd Caradot
Townlev l3s 6d Menet Hall ........... 143,6(1
Wall's End, &c ielloe ........... •.......•. 14s 9d
Acorn Close
Hedworth
Barton
Hotspur
Hilda l3s 91 Ships at market...B7.

COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS.
(THIS DAY.) -
The Metropolitan Sanitary Commission held a Court
of Sewers this morning; Lord Ebrington in the chair.
The construction of several works were ordered to be
commenced.
Summonses were ordered to be issued against 2,040
defaulters in the Tower Hamlets district. It was stated
that these defaulters laboured under the delusion that
they were not bound to pay the rates.
Mr. CHADWICK said he hnd been in communication
with a committee of the Corporation of the ci'y of
London, relative to their joining the Commissioners, in
carrying out the ordnance survey in the City, as well as
in other parts of the metropolis. The district under
the contra of the Corporation would form about one-
tenth of the entire an-a included in the survey, and the
additional expense of taking in the City would be about
4501. The committee had promised to communicate to
the Corporation the information he bad furnished to
them oil the subject.
Mr. LAMBERT Rads said the matter was now under
the consideration of the Corporation, who, he bad no
doubt,-would be quite willing to co-operate with the Corn-
missioners.
Thomas Mitchell was fined 501. for the erection of a
sewer in Beresford-street, Walworth.
Thothas Morris was tined 40s. for constructing an irre-
gular drain in Pomery-street, Kent-road.
The Court then adjourned till the 10th of August.

BUILDING BENEVOLENT INSTI-

TUTI ON.

Yesterday the friends and patrons of this infant
institution celebrated its establishment by a public
festival, at the Freemasons"ravern, Great Queen-
street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, when upwards of 150
gentlemen, prominently connected with the build-
ing profession, sat down to dinner. The wines and
viands were of the choicest description, and did great
credit to the spirited proprietors of the tavern,
who spared no exertion to entitle them to the future
favours of the society. The chair was occupied by
Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P. Mr. Harker acted as
toastmaster, and a corps of accomplished vocalists,
under. the superintendence of Mr. Hatton, added con-
aiderably.to the entertainments of the evening. The
cloth having been removed, and the usual loyal toasts
given and responded to with marked enthusiasm,
The CHAIRMAN proposed the toast of the evening,
"Pros,perb, to the Builders' Benevolent Institu-
tion.', reproached the builders as a body
with baying ,so long delayed' the establishment of an
institution like that which they were then assembled
to consummate, but hoped they would redouble their
exertions so as to make up for the time which they
had so scandalously lost..(Hear, hear.) He was
glad to find that, notwithstanding the greet duties of
the past year, the contribution in aid of the funds of
the society were most munificent.—(Cheers.)
The tout was then drank With great applause.
"Mr. Bums (president of the society) next ad-
draped the meeting. Re entered at great length on
the objects of the institution, explaining that it was
established for the purpose of aiding the aged
and decayed Members of the building profession,
and although it had only been mooted last year,
yet they had already. met with an amount of suc-
cess almost uprecedented in the history of
charitable institutions. For this success they were
mainly indebted to the Noble Lord in the chair and
the other Members for Middlesex and the metropolitan
boroughs, who her given them every assistance in
their . power.--(Cheers.) They had been liberally
responded to by, the surveyors and official referees,
and in fact by. every class in the community
on 'Whom they, bad any claim.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Biers, then read .a number of letters of apology,
and, amongst -others, from Lord Dudley Stuart,
Earl -- Grosvenor, Lord Morpeth, -Mr. Osborne,
Colonel. Wood; &c. That from Lord Morpeth
enclosed 10/. 'He next proceeded to read the list of
subscriptions and donations, which included 20/. from
the Noble Chairman; and 201. from the Marquis of
Westminster, and amounted to upwards of 1,000/.
The health of the Chairman, of Mr. Biers, the
President, and various other toasts were given .and
responded to during the evening, which was one of
unalloyed enjoyment.-

STATE OF TRADE.
AIANCIIESTEL—Daring the last two days there has
been a good demand for Italy, the Levant, and
Alexico, with a decidedly increasing desire on the
part of the German merchants to purchase yarn, and
prices have, consequently, been very well sustained.
this morning the market opened with increasing firm-
ness in prices as compared with those prevalent last
week. Generally speaking, there were willing
buyers of most descriptions of goods and yarn, at the
rates of Thursday last; but spinners and manufac-
turers, having been to a great extent relieved from
the pressure of stocks, and in many cases working to
order, generally demanded a sight advance upon
those rates, which was partially acceded to by
purchasers. The general eJect, however, was
rather to limit the amuunt of business, which was
scarcely so extensive as on last Tuesday. For the
lower numbers of yarn, however, and especially of
eater twist, which are relatively scarce, an advance
Of an eighth to a farthing per lb. over last week'S•
Prices was pi Otty readily obtained, as was also
1111 advance of lid. per piece on some descriptions
of hhirtings, which have been in rather extensive de-
mand. It is understood that a large order for this
description of cloth, intended for the China market,
has heen received here from the United States, the
Merchants of that country finding that the funds ne-
cessary for their investments of teas can be more ad-
vantageously provided by shipments of English
than of American manufactures, which of late have
not been remunerative. Indeed it has been notorious
for some time past that the sales of American
domestics, sent to China and other markets, almost
invariably left a loss ; though the merchants might
eventually be remunerated by the profit on the
return cargo. English manufactures, however, or
letters of credit enabling the merchants to draw on
London, are likely to yield a more advantageous re-
sult; and we may expect the trade between China
and the United States to be carried on in a great
measure by one or other of those means. The im-
proved tone of the market has given a great stimulus
to production throughout this district, and that
many of the mills which have been stopped are
beginning to run, while a large proportion of
those which have been working short time are
going to full time. There is a general disposition to
employ only male hands, for the sake of escaping the
restriction of the Ten Hours' Bill ; but of course,
when employment becomes general, any such at-
tempts will be futile. The official return, pre-
pared under the direction of Captain Willis,
Made up to yesterday, gives the following re
sults :—There are four more cotton mills, one more
silk mill, and one more smallware mill at
work than there were last week. There are seven
More cotton mills on full time, and three fewer on
!hart time, than there were last week. Of the
hands employed in the cotton mills there are 2,409
°n full time, and 1,760 fewer on short time. Of the
total works included in the table, there are six
?nOre on full time, one more on short time, and one
less stopped than there were last week. There are,
altogether, 927 more hands included in the table
than there were last week ; there are 2,280 more
a,nlployed on full time, and 1,357 less on short time.
The return, therefore, indicates a decided improve-
tnent.
hoctinaLu.—We have had some little improve-
121ent in the market to-day, and a better demand
Tor kerseys and heavy goods. The workpeople are
More fully employed than they have been for some
time back.
HUDDERSFIELD.—The improvement of last week
effected
been maintained, and some heavy sales have been
at a slight advance in price.
I: n•ALfrax.—The general tone of the manufacturers
" More cheerful and a more hopeful feeling is preva-
P,net; but we cannot say that there has been, in our
ce Hall to-day, any actual improvement in the
amount of business done. A better state of things
seems, however, to be pretty confidently expected,
sold
some of the larger firms in this neighbourhood
"„.Ie extending their operations, and giving more em-
k",,Twient to their hands.
4..!'"be.—This day's market showed a good deal of
nitnation and maintained the firmer tone already
established. As yet the chief business is done for
tre,nome trade ; but the prospects for a good export
arie
are much nearer, and more probable to be
realised than they were a short time:v.—Manchester
-mirdialt of yesterday.

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..
~ . LITERATURE.
m rRA BEAU.
A Life History. In Four Books.
A Zre, tel• name does not occur in the history of
the first French Revolution than that of Mirabeau—
numberless as are the great names which illumine
that exiraordinary epoch. Vergniaud for eloquence,
~I,l,obe;ierre for egotism, Marat for ferocity, Condor-
cet for thought, Roland for enthusiasm, Danton for
daring,,, DeSMOUIiDS for sincerity, Chenier for poetry,
Sieyes.for acumen, Fouche for cunning, Carnot fur
military defence, Durnouriez for military attack,
Lafayette for a kind of coxcombical chivalry, Hebert
fora sort of devilish brutality, were each of them,
without doubt, in their several ways, wonderful. But
Mirabeau towers above them all like a colossus. The
grand storm of his voice, as an orator, drowns even
the roarings of Danton. His genius renders them
all insignificant by comparison—so gigantic were
its proportions. In going back among the
ruins of that tremendous age we pause be-
fore the vastness of the memory of Mirabeau,
as Eithen paused in the .desert before the giant
effigy of theSphyta. Like Eithen, too, we find in that
great rugged form—beauty—majesty—immortality :
though the beauty is of an unearthly cast, the ma-
jesty has about it something of the horrible, and the
immortality is an immortality half of gloom and half
of splendour. The man would be an idiot who would
deny that Mirabeau was a Great Man ; and he would
he little better than an idiot who would call him a
Good one. A Great Bad Man he was, and as such he
will be remembered to the end of time. To deny the
pre-eminence of his wenius would be to say that the
sun never shines. We proclaim this as our opinion
at once, and yet we confess at once that a work
has just appeared which made us think for a
while, in spite of ourselves, that we had been
mistaken, and that the fame of Mirabeau was a delu-
sion, a sham, and a humbug. The work we speak
of is this " Life History," by somebody who very
wisely conceals his name. We never read a book
like it before, and we pray God we may never read
one like it again. We denounce it at once as one
of the most blasphemous and licentious works pub-
lished in this century. The writer is Mirabeau-mad,
and his madness is stark, staring madness. He speaks
of his hero as one would speak only of a God. The
six hundred and twenty-five pages, are six hundred
and twenty-five pages of passionate and imbecile
adoration. The author revels in the remembered
lecheries of Mirabeau, those gross and ignomini-
, ous sins of concupiscence which human charity
should have prompted him to leava with the
corrupt dust of his idol rotting into oblivion. Car-
' lyle is out- Carlyled. Hero-worship is carried to the
height 'of an impious exaggeration. Panegyric is
swollen 'into apotheosis. So resolutely, so system-
atically, so fanatically is this done that the author
goes out of his way to increase the fetid torrent of
his eulogiums—he finds excuses for seduction—he
sings the epithalamium of adultery. His only figure
of speech is hyperbole, his one unvarying style of
composition gradiloquence ; and if 'he diverts the at-
tention for an instant to a foot-note he stalks down
into the margin on stilts. He strives to magnify
what was already stupendous, and the effect is,
of course, only to produce an appalling and
infamous distortion. We are perfectly well aware
that the penning of a biography in nine hundred and
ninety-nine cases out of every thousand engenders in
the mind of the biographer a species of diseased admi-
ration. From a , mere chronologist he gradually
changes into a deliberate apologist. From writing a
narrative he is distracted into , the composition of an
eulogium. The transformation seems to be in-
evitable, and for that reason it behoves every man to
hesitate for a long time before he adventures upon the 1
memoir of a celebrateciTcharacter. Otherwise he may
inadvertently be seduced 'into the extenuation of
criminality, and may end in becoming the panegyrist
of a villain. Unfortunately we cannot detect
the smallest token in the whole of these two volumes
of any such inadvertency. The author has evidently
written prepense, the impurities of his theme have
only induced him to write more intensely and tho-
roughly con amore. Without, however, plunging
bodily into the depraved logic and indecorous apos-
trophies of this " Life History," we will refresh the
minds of our readers with a rapid enumeration of
the incidents which constitute the true memoir of
Mirabean—the skeleton of facts upon which has been
heaped together this unsightly mass of literary ordure
and most' putrescence.
''' •

• •
Honore Gabriel Riquetti, Comte do Mirabeau, was
born on the 9th of March, 1749, at Bignon,
near Sens. After receiving a preliminary education
under M. Poisson, he was, in his fifteenth year
removed to a military school at Paris, conducted by
the Abbe Choquart; and from that establishment,
when he was eighteen, he proceeded to Saintes, on
the River Charente, near Rochelle, where he joined
a regiment commanded by the Marquis de Lambert.
All this while he passed under the assumed name of
Peter Buthere, his father, who had since childhood
imbibed a bitter antipathy to him, refusing to allow
him to take his psternal title, considering it too
honourable for such a scapegrace. A lettre de cachet
gratified this unnatural hatred by consigning
the unfortunate stripling to a dungeon in the
Isle of Rhe, from which confinement he was only re-
leased on the 20th of March, 1769. He imparted a
rather questionable eclat to his restoration to freedom
by immediately afterwards fighting a duel at Ro-
chelle. Subsequently to this duel he enlisted as a
sub-lieutenant in the Legion of Lorraine, commanded
by the Baron Viomenil, and left Toulon for Corsica
on the 15th of the following April. On the Bth of
May, 1770, he returned to main land from his insular
campaigning, and on the 14th of the same month
visited his uncle, the Bailli of Mirabeau. 'We next
find him as a Captain of Dragoons, meeting his
father by appointment at Aigueperse, on the
21st of September, and at last assuming
by permission his proper rank and title as
Count of Mirabeau. On the 11th of January, 1771,
he leaves Limoges, where he has been staying since
his temporary reconciliation with his father ; ar-
rives at Paris on the 14th ; becomes a favourite at
Court; on the 14th of June makes a second journey
to Aigueperse, and by the next November has re-
turned to Bignon. On the 2d of December he sets
out for Provence, and on the 224 of June, 1772, is
married to Marie Emilie de Covet, the only daughter
of ;the Marquis of Marignane, near Aix—his cara
eposa being described by all biographers as " a little
brown woman." To a man of the voluptuous tastes
of Mirabeau, an union with a woman so ill adorned by
nature couldof course only bring misery. And it did.
Not very long after the honeymoon, Mirabeau is
persi;ented by his unnatural parent, and is confined
at the inetigation of the latter, on a sort of parole, in
the town 'of ilanosque. Here Mirabeau breaks his
parole and 'horsewhips the Baron of Villeneuve-
Moans. He is at once removed to the Castle of If,
which he readies on the '23d August, 1774—the cas-
tle being isolated in the Mediterranean sea within
sight of Marseilles, and its commandant being M.
Dallegre. The prisoner soon converts his gaoler into
his friend, by his irresistible power of fascination,
and in consequence of this is conveyed away on the
25th June to the Castle of Jonx, a fortress situated
in the jaws of the Jura mountains, near
Switzerland. The commandant of this prison,
M. de St. Mauls, is a man of a more implacable dis-
position, and withstands the fascinations of his
charge. Only one indulgence is granted to the latter,
namely, leave to visit the neighbouring town of Pon-
tarlier. Here it is that he is introduced to the Mar-
quis of Monnier, who, then aged seventy-one, had on
the Ist July, 1771, married Mademoiselle Sophie de
Ruffey, then aged eighteen. The year 1775 wit-
nesses the adultery of Sophie and Mirabeau at Pon-
tarlier; and the 16th of January, 1776, sees Mirabeau
escape from Pontarlier to Verribres in Switzerland.
Sophie, on the other hand, being persecuted and tor-
tured almost outof her senses,flies on the 25th of the same
January to her parents at Dijon, but is induced, on
the 24th March, to return from Dijon to Pontarlier,
Mirabeau being then imprisoned in the Castle of
Dijon. On the 25th May, calling himself Count
Beaumont, Mirabeau escapes to Verrieres, on to Ge,
neva, to Lyons, to Avignon, to Nice, to Turin, to Mount
St. Bernard, to Geneva again, arriving on the 23d of
August at Verrieres, the starting point of his ex-
cursion. On that same evening Sophie and Mirabeau
are united at a trysting spot, and on the 17th of Sep-
tember they leave Verrieres together surreptitiously.
By the 26th of the same month they have reached
Rotterdam, and by the 7th of October have
I settled in Amsterdam, Mirabeau calling himself
Saint Mathieu. Here he remains, supporting
himself and his companion by working as
a hack to the booksellers. On the 14th
of May, 1777, their criminal felicity is inter-
rupted, both of them being arrested by Brugnieres.
Sophie is confined in a house in the Rue de Charonne
at Paris, kept by Madlle. Douay. Mirabeau, on the
other hand, is incarcerated on the 7th of June in the
Donjon of Vincennes, his Governor being M.
Boucher. About this period of their double imprison-
ment Sophie gives birth to a daughter, ss hom she
christens. Sophie-Gabrielle : the child, however, is
immediately carried away by the De Ruffeys, and
the mother is shortly afterwards removed to the con-
vent of Gien, near Montargis, not far from Bignon.
Two
grievous calamities then successively befal
Mirabeau ; first his lawful son (the heir
to the house) dies on the Bth of October, 1778 ; and,
secondly, his illegitimate daughter
So-
phie) dies in her second
yearghotne r
the(the
23d child o
of
ofmar:
1780. For three years and a half Mirabeau
on the
remains
a prisoner in Vincennes, being
13th of December, 1780. y releasedlmmediately on his eman-
cipation be assumes the name of Hon?sre, and
takes up his residence in the house of h
M.
good-
hearted
theedgo2veorloor,fßoucher,l7Bl, that
in
nt he Par
obtains
Paris.
It is gsno
inotn .
terview with his hitherto implacable father; and,
about the same time, he entertains a feeling of jealousy
in mud to Sophie on account of a certain

de Rancourt. The two lovers (Sophie
and'Alirabeau) have a stolen interview with each other
at Gien ,on the 19th of July, when they quarrel
and part for ever in hatred. Subsequently, namely,
on the Bth of September, 1789, Sophie destroys herself
with,the smoke of charcoal. On the 19th of October,

1782, Mirabeau arrived again at the Chateau de Mira
been, his celebrated trial respecting Sophie having ter-
minated in his favour on the 4th of the preceding
August. His second trial, that about his wife, termi-
nated also in his favour on the 24th March, 1783, the
verdict being afterwards, however, on the sth of July,
1783, reversed. Mirabeau then fought two duels in
succession with Gallifet, and on his return to Paris
r seduced Mademoiselle Henrietta Amelia Van Haren.
She fled with him to England, assuming to herself
the title of Madame Nehra, and arrived in the
August of 1784. at Shoreham. From Shoreham
they proceeded to Brighton, to Lewes, and on to
London, where they took apartments in liatton•gar-
den, Holborn. The friends of Mirabeau during his
stay in London were Sir Samuel Romilly, Lord
Peterborough, Sir Gilbert Elliott (afterwards Lord
Minto), Hurd (Bishop of Worcester), Major Cart-
wright, John Wilkes, and Lord Shelbourne
(first Marquis of Lansdowne). At intervals,
the French Noble made excursions to the
suburbs of the English capital, going now to Chis-
wick, now on to Windsor, and at another time as far
as Oxford. On the 10th of January, 1785, he
brought an action against his valet Hardi on a charge
of theft. After remaining eight months in England,
Mirabeau returned to Paris in the March of 1785,
and on the 23d of December in the same year left
Paris on a half-diplomatic expedition, proceeding
through Verdun, Nancy, Frankfort, and Leipzig, to
Berlin, where he arrived on the 19th January, 1786.
On the 25th of the same January he was honoured
with an interview with the old King Frederick
the Great, and again on the 19th of
April. After staying four months in Prus-
sia he returned homewards, arriving in Paris on
the 22d of May. On the 10th of July he again
proceeded to Berlin on a secret mission, and again
returned to Paris in the January of 1787. It was
on the 9th of April, 1789, that he was elected to sit
in the States General as Deputy of Aix, and it was
during the twenty-three following months, the last
months of his extraordinary career, that the Count of
Mirabeau astonished the whole of France and
of Europe by a blaze of oratory which was the
funeral pyre of this Sardanapalus of genius. During
this most memorable interval of his life his residence
was divided between his country-house, called Le
Marais, near Argenteuil, and his town house in the
Chaussia d'Antin, afterwards (on the sth of April,
1791), called the Rue Mirabeau, then at the outskirts
of .Paris, not far from the Tuileries, and in the
Faubourg St. Honore. His secretaries, M. Pellenc,
M. de Bourges, and M. de Comps, were tasked rather
severely at this period by his lavish and abundant
intellect. At length the thread was cut by the
shears of Atropos—Honore Gabriel Riquetti Comte
de Mirabeau breathed his last sigh at his city resi-
dence, No. 42, in the Chaussee d'Antin, at half past
eight o'clock on the morning of Saturday, April 2,
1791, having living exactly forty-two years and
twenty-four days.
* * •

Such is the career which this anonymous biogra-
pher has rendered the theme of his indecorous eulo-
giums. Without discriminating between the good
and the bad of this wonderfully dubious man, he has
indulged in language which sometimes sinks into the
grovelling and sometimes rises into the impious.
There is no affectation in the work, which is a plain,
bold panegyric upon the life of perhaps the most
vicious man of the eighteenth century ; or, if there is
affectation, it is only an affectation in the style of
composition, the four books being written in a bom-
bastic imitation of Thomas Carlyle. Now Carlyle's
style is not to be imitated ; it is his own exclusively;
and whoever attempts to mimic that style would de-
serve to be regarded as a coxcomb, did he not force
us to look upon him as something less rational and
less human. The God before whom the writer of
the two volumes now lying at our elbow bawl down
and burns the incense of his adoration is no other—
be it known henceforth—than the great criminal
called (great criminals being mostly called by a va-
riety of names) Peter Buffiere, alias Count Beau-
mont, alias St. Mathieu, alias M. Honori, alias Ga-
briel the Count of Mirabeau. If the reader wants to
know at once the strain in which this criminal is
mentioned by the author, without having the labour
of wading through the 625 pages—from which
misery, say we, God defend him !—let him turn
to the apostrophe beginning at page 308 of
the first volume, and ending at page 311.
We proclaim it to be the most stupen-
dous piece of turgescence and big-word writing in
the English language. Far be it from us to give in
any manner a yet more extended circulation to th•
pernicious arguments and poisonous immoralities of
this miserable effusion. Yet in justification of our
own words we must particularize a few of the most
reprehensible passages in the biography. Take as a
proof the gross immorality of the work, the descrip-
tion of the adulterous crime of Sophie and Mirabeau,
where the writer speaks in terms almost amounting to
admiration of the chaste moon looking down at Pon-
tarlier on " a deed of ecstatic and delirious sin."
(Vol. I. p. 95 ) Look again, at the pathetic extenu-
ation of their guilt at page 93, or at the filthy inuendos
of the Duc de Nivernois (pages 28 and 29), or at the
encomium passed upon the debauched Count (page
147) for not neglecting the pecuniary interests of
Sophie, when to have neglected those interests would
have proclaimed him a villain as well as a debauchee.
Or look most of all at the odious panegyric pro-
nounced (Vol. 11. p. 275) upon the barren and
deistic death of Mirabeau, of which death the author
says he " would not have had it otherwise !" As a
crowning act of indecorum, the volumes which we
here again declare to be both blasphemous and im-
moral are dedicated by the person who writes them
—to ms MOTHER. To his mother ! And yet at page 89
of the first volume he speaks of an adulterous
connexion like that of Sophie and Mirabeau as the
only true marriage ! Gladly do we bring our
comments upon this "Life History" to a close, pro-
testing against it, again and again, with the last
dashes of our pen, as a most indecent and pernicious
biography.