The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-25 00:00:00

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" BATTY AND THE BEASTS" is the title of a chap-
ter in a book of travels, from which we extract the follow-
ing graphic description :—" One evening in the early sum-
mer, a violent thunder storm burst over Paris. My apart-
ment overlooked the Cirque de l'lmpe,ratrice in the Champs
Elysees, where the lions wore kept, and the scene for a
short space was indescribably grand. The air was full of
electricity, and under its influence these animals, as is al-
ways the case, became fearfully excited. They ran to and
fro in fierce and ungovernable rage. They lashed
their flanks with their tails in passionate vehemence.
Placing their mouths to the ground, they roared in
mingled rage and terror, their eyes dilated, and seemed
to flash forth the lightnings of the tempest that rioted
within them. Without, the roaring of the lions was
answered by the howls of the blast and the loud crash.
of the thunder. With these intervals were mingled
the neighings of a hundred frightened horses in the
stables of the circus. Gusts of wind swept down the broad
avenue and bowed thelofty trees. The rain descended in
torrents. The people fled from the demon of the storm.
Fora few minutes the whole vicinity seemed given up to
the furies of elemental warfare. Scarce had the mutter-
ing thunders died away in distant reverberations, when
the time drew near for Batty's advert among his brutes.
As he came in sight, they hailed him with boisterous up-
roar. Standing upright against the massive bars, they
grappled them in their rage and gnashed upon him with
their teeth. A man of iron nerves could hardly have
looked upon them with calmness. Had his body been
made of steel he would scarcely have dared to trust him-
self among them. But Batty did not quail. At a bound.
he leaped into the cage, despising all hesitation. Its iroa
door he slammed after him with a loud clang. To us who
looked on it seemed the gate of a sepulchre. His subjects
glared at him as if they would instantly devour him. For
a moment he returned their gaze, and looked steadily into
the eyes of each. They could not bear the test. One by
one they cowered before him and slunk away, conscious of
their helplessness. Again mind triumphed over the rude
dictates of instinct, and rah, the lord and master, towered
in his pride of place."
Tax IMPEACIINIENT OF I'IIrSIDENT JMNSYY aeon a TIMM
OF TERROII.—DJ the Arne:lean people realise the revulutiea
they are passing through ? Is it a small thing to impesch
the President of the United States and to depose him on
such flimsy and ridiculous charges as the radicals have
trumped up against Mr. Johnson ? Ills worst enemies do
not assail his honesty or integrity.• He has endeavoured to
perform his duty according to his understanding of it, and
the constitution which he has s corn to p: eserse.
His sole offence is that he hits not gone with
the dominant party in Congress in their efforts
to Africanize the country and to revolutinuiz3 the govern.
ment. Is it a small thing to remove a President for party
purposes alone? Such a thing was never dreamed of before
in
the United States. It is an important and very long
stride in the way of revolution, And who a short time
ago would have thought that a large aectien of the coun-
try, ten States of the Union, would be kept for years
under military despotism in time of peace ? Who
would have thought that these States and the white
people of our own flesh and blood would be put under the
government of barbarous negroes 1 Who would have ima-
gined that Congress would have ventured to abolish the
Executive and usurp all the powers of government in its
own hands ? Who would have believed that a powerful
faction would dare set acid- the constitution and declare it
&ad ? Yet all this Las been done, and iruch more, within
th, brief period of two or three years. Is not thie revile.
tion ? It would be hard to Lad in history a greater and
more rapid revolution • • bin as short a time,. No, the
revolution would not stop ,-'l,ll toe deposition of the
President. That event r Joie only accelerate it. The
necessities of the Jacobin passe would impel it on to other
revolutionary measures, and probably to serious conflicts
among the people. The people would
.become familiarised
with these high.banded and despisec proceedings, and
either apathy, which is destructive to liberty, or counter.
revolutions would follow. What under other circumstances
and in former times would have strartled them might no
longer create surprise, and a reign of despotism or anarchy
would ensue. The military despotism over the South may
be extended to the North. Some disturbance may be
fomented as a plea for suspending the writ of habeas corpus
and governing the North as well as the South by the strong
arm of military power. As this revolution proceeds we
shall soon find our securities will run down abroad, that
they will be sent back in vast numbers, and that both the
government and country will be plunged into great financial
troubles and bankruptcy. 'Unless the people rise in their
might at the polls and drive the radicals from power, we
barsil diestr9oluture before 9.--Arcta YOIA