The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
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T is existing French government, under the pretext of
putting down socialism and disorder, has set up a pure
despotism, and carried into practice those views which the
Socialists merely advocated as.a theory. It may be that
there is some short-sighted world4y wisdom in the policy
which has been adopted ; but assuredly it has neither
honesty nor prudent statesmanship. The effect may be
to distance and outbid all rivalry, for the present ; but to
what point must it tend, when men's eyes are directed to
the future ? If the Socialist principle of appropriating
private property, for the benefit of others than the
owners, be once recognised as a matter for legitimate ex-
periment, who can_offer the smallest guarantee that there

Thy features have not lost the bloom
lhat brig,h•ened them when first we met
No ; rays of softest light illume
'1 heir unambitious beauty yet.

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

And it the passing* clouds of Care
Hive cast their 811.114m/a o'er thy face,
They hAsti. but left, triumphant, there
A holier charm—more witching grace.

And if thy voice hath sunk a tone
And sounds more sadly than of yere,
It hath a sweetness, all its own,
Methinks I never marked before.

will be an end of the husiness,•when the estates and heri-
tages of princes and aristocrats shall have been exhausted.
The decree of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for the con-
fiscation of the private domains of the princes and prin.
cwees of the Orleans family, is a measure that was oriel-
ginally suggested by the Provisional Government of 1848,
of which poor Louis Blanc and .wrong-headed
-Rollin were influential members. But, although the

Thus, young, and fair, and happy too,—
it hiss indeed may here be won,—
In spite elan that Care can do,
In spite of all that Time bath done.

Is yon white hair a boon of love;
To thee in mildest mercy given ?
A sign, a to;:en from above,
To lead thy thoughts from earth to heaven

pri•ject was carried so far as sequestration, on the plea that
the debts of King Louis-Philippe should be paid from the
proceeds,. the entire management of the details was en-
-trusted to M. de Monteliver, the 'King's confidential
agent, who was soon enabled to discharge all legal and
equitable demands upon his master, end to redeem the
estates, and, as he thought, to secure them for the future
permanent advantage of their owner. This, however, af-
forded no triumph, and, cons quently, no satisfaction to

To speak to thee of life's decay;
Of beauty, hastening to the tomb ;
Of hopes, that cannot fade away ;
Of j ys, that never lose their bloom?

THE EMIGRATION TRADE.
LETTER

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Or sprints the thread of timeless snow
With those dark, glossy locks entwined,
Month's and Beauty's morning glow,
To emblem thy maturer mind ?

. . .
the Socialists, and they therefore made another effort, in
July, 1848, through the agency of M. Jules Fabvre, a
Red-Republican leader, absolutely to deprive the exiled
king and his family of their inheritance as French citi-
zens, in addition to their loss of power and status as its
rulers. The proposition, however, was-coldly received,
notwithstanding the general excitement which then pre-
vailed; and being referred to the Standing Committee on
Finance, the report drawn up by M. Berryer—a legiti-
mist, and hence no friend to any unjust pretensions on
the part of the House of Orleans—established the private
right of the exiles to enjoy what fairly belonged to them,
and totally demolished the claims and arguments of those
who 3ought to put money into their own pockets by spo-
liation.

It does, it does:—then let it stay;
Eve', Wisdom's self were welcome now:
Who'd wish her soberer tints away,
When thus they beam from Beauty's brow!

VARIETIES

General Lamhort said pithily,
were but men at the best."
There is not a more extraordinary instance of constant
application than that which is shown by the tax-gatherer.
Intellect is not the moral power ; conscience is.

' that the best of men

It was then clearly shown that the property of Louis

41 H moor, not talent, makes the -gentlem. nn."

. .
Philippe had besn held under two distinct CIEISSeE of title.
One was the appanage of the Dukedom of Orleans. as
held by a Bourbon of the royal line, nearly relater" to the
sovereign, and granted by Louis XIV., in 1692, to his
brother, by letters patent ; but on the express condition
that i should revert to the crown, in case the duke or any
of his descendants in possession should ascend the throne.
This appanage comprised the forests of Orleans, of Villara
Cotteret, of which such charming descriptions have bean
given in the " Memoirs of Mademoiselle de Montpeo-
sier," and of Coucy ; together with the Palais Royal. and
sundry other pleasant and profitable domains, realising,
altogether, an income of about £lOO,OOO per annum.
The contingency provided for in this endowment did arise,
in the year 1830, by the elevation of Louis Philippe to
the rank of " King of the Barricades" ; and the whole
of the property, accordingly, reverted to the civil list, and
ceased to be treated as belonging to the Orleans family.
Nor has any claim been set up for its resumption since
the expulsion of the king, and the destruction of the
throne. The state has done with it whatever seemed
good, without contention or even question.
The other portion of the ample private fortune of the
late king was derived chiefly from hie mother. the heiress
of the old and historically renowned Dukes. f PenthiCyre,
to which were added such purchases of land as his pr, de-
cessors and himself had been able to make out of the
savings of their income, marriage dowries, and IN quests
of friends. This property was absolutely vested in Louis
Philippe before his accession to the throne ; was never
appropriated to the purposes of the state, nor was a ques-
tion ever asked as to its management or use by those who
moat grudged the king his abundant wealth, and the
influence it necessarily conferred on him, independently
of his exalted position and patronage. It was because
Louis Philippe had this enormous property, and had pro-
mised, when the crown was tendered to him in 1830, to
provide for his children by dividing it among them, that
the Chamber of Deputies repeatedly refused to allow any
" dotation" to he made for the hehoof of the Princes and
Princesses of Orleans, as they grew up and got settled in
marriage. Yet this is tire property which Louis Napoleon
Bonaparte has seized, affecting to treat the booty as a
resumption of what once belonged to the public.
To a, gue about the justice of this confiscation, after the
broad facts are stated, would he absurd. Its defence can
only be drawn from the canons of the socialists, whose
mission the President. has taken up, after they have been
driven to abandon it, as one which conduces to his own
pe-sonal benefit, and may serve to gratify the troopers of
that army by whose bayonets and suffrage alone he rules.
M. Bonaparte has not even the poor plea for his pro-
ceedings that it was necessary to disarm, by quartering
upon, his enemies ' • for Louis Philippe and his family were
ever the indulgent friends, and, to some extent, the admi-
rers of the Emperor Napoleon and his immediate con-
nexions. He was perpetually lavishing eulogies on the
memory and actions of the great soldier and lawgiver who
had " made Paris the capital of Europe." More than
once he admitted members of the family, though known
to cherish and to have put forth pretensions to the French
throne, to enter the realm ; and he ever afforded a refuge
to Queen Hortense, the mother of Louis Napoleon, when
surrounded by difficulties and dangers, in his own palace.
He begged the exiled corpse of Napoleon from the British
government, and brought it from its appropriate monu-
ment—the giant rock of St. Helena—to the banks of the
Seine, which he had loved so well ; dedicated Statues to
his honour and glory ; and decorated the walls of Ver-
sailles with pictures, and other monuments and memo-
rials, of his exploits. He was tolerant and forbearing
even to the Pretender who twice invaded his kingdom.
Nay, he went so far as to shield him from the extreme
punishment which his breach of faith and treason had
incurred.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of
adversi'y is fo,titude.

Hurnan exi-t, nce hintes upon trifles—what is beauty

without SOll

An eas'ern si?e, being desired to inscribe on the ring
of his sultan a motto equally applicable to prosperity and
zdver.ity, returned it with these words engraved on the
marface. " And this, too, shall pass away."
It being reported that Lady Caroline Lamb, in a moment
of pass,o,i, knocked down oneof her pages with a stool, the
poet. M ore, to whom the story was told by Lord Strang.
ford. observed, "On ! nothing is more natural for a
literary lady than to double down a page," " I would
sather" replied his lordship, " advise Lady Caroline to
turn over a new leaf."

AN EMIGRANT'S HOME",

It is a grievous perverting of the design of speech to use
it to the defaming and disquieting our neighbour. It was
given us as an instrument of beneficial commerce, and
ideb-ctahitt conversation ; that with it we might assist and
advise, might cheer and comfort, one another; we, there-
fore. i,i employing it to the disgrace, vexation, damage.
or prtjudice in any kind. of our neighbour, do foully
abuse it ; and so doing render ourselves indeed worse than
dumb beasts ; for better far were it that we should say
nothing. than that we should speak ill.—Barrow.
ACTING THE AGREEABLE.—An Englishman seldom
lays tiimselt out to act the agreeable to women—a French-
xnen r omits an opportunity of so doing ; hence the
attentions of the latter are less gratifying than those of
the former, because a woman, however tree from vanity,
.may suppose that when an Englishman takes the trouble
—and it is evidently a trouble, more or less, to all our
islanders to enact the agreeahle—she has really inspired
him with the desire to please.—Lady Blessington's Idler
in France.

POPULAR PROVERBS.—Pride frustrates its own desire:
it will not mount the steps of the throne, because it has
210 t yet the crown on.—Sound not the vain trumpet of
self-condemtation, but forget nor to remember your own
imperfections.—The thinking man hath wings; the acting
man has only fett and hands.—The pur.•st joy that we
can experience in one we love is to see that person a
source of hapoinesa to others.—Kindly appreciative words
may bring upon the spirit of a man a softening dew of hu-
mility. in:tead of feeding within him the boisterous flame
of vanity.

RARE INSTANCE OF NERVE.—An Indian sword-player
declared at. a great public festival that he could cleave a
small lime laid on a man's palm without injury to the
member; and the General (Sir Charles Napier) extended
bis right hand for the trial. The sword player, awed by
bis rank, was reluctant, and cut the fruit horizontally.
Being urged to fulfil his boast, lie examined the palm,
said it was not one to be experimented upon with safety,
and refused to proceed. The General then extended his
left hand, which was admitted to he suitable in form ; yet
the Indian still declined the tri I, and when pressed twice
waved his thin keen-edeed blade as if to strike, and twice
withheld the blow, declaring he was uncertain of success.
Finally he was forced to make a trial ; and the lime fell
open, cleanly divided—the edge of the sword had just
inarked its passage over the skin without drawing a drop
of blood. !—Sir C. Napier's Administration in Scinde.
INTERCOURSE WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.—Toge-
ther with other. valtuible hints, he recommended me never
to assume airs of superiority, never to speak slightingly
about American institutions, and never to draw invidious
comparisons between the old world and the new. Ile
pressed upon me the importance of avoiding all expressions
unfavourable to negro slavery, and recommending me to
treat all perzons with respec', whatever might be their
condition in life. " Remember, for example," he added,
di when you enter a public-house, instead of giving orders,
as you would do in England, to ask modestly for what you
want, and to pay great deference to the innkeeper and his
attendants. Frequently," he proceeded, " the master of
the house is a colonel, a general, or a judge, and the most
influential pet son in the place : while those who might be
mistaken for his servants are none other than his wife, his
sons, and his daughters. In all your intercourse with
Americans of every description, recollect, as you value
your peace and comfort, to avoid the use of the imperative
mood."—Caswell's America and the American Church.
AN EPISCOPAL PII.OTEIJS--Re [Bishop Chase] was
not only the Bishop of the Diocese, and Rector of the
Parish ; but President of the Convention, of the Board of
Trustees, of the Professors, and of the little societies
formed by the residents at Gambier. He had the ap-
pointment of professors, tutors, headsmen, and clerks;
and, as General Agent, possessed a complete control over
personal and domestic comforts of the College officers and
their families. He was the Postmaster, and had the ma-
nagement of the hotel, :he shop, the mill, the farms, the
printing-office, the tailors, the shoemakers, and the la-
bourers. As Steward of the Refectory, he could and did
say when, where, and what both the professors and the
students should eat. He was also the Treasurer, receiv-
ing and disbursing all moneys, fixing all salaries, and set-
dins all accounts."—lbid.

And it is for this that Louis Napoleon, who owed so
much to the Orleans family, now despoils and impover
ishes them ! Robs them of their patrimony, and appro-
priates to himself, and to the reward of the t..oops who
effected for him the coup d'etat of the 2cd of December,
the very tombs of their ancestors and brethren at the
Castle of Dreux, which had been spared and held sacred
through ell the revolutionary violence and violations of
former years 1
Such a policy must needs gratify the socialists and
anarchists, for it is their own ; but it has so effectually
disgusted sober-thinking and honest-hearted men in every
part of France, and so associated infamy with the name
and proceedings of M. Bonaparte in every part of Europe,
that, to use the language of the TimeB on the subject,
" already have many minor shades of difference been re-
moved from among the constitutional party, and some dis-
tant prospect prepared tor a union of all, in the restoration
of law and government, to the French nation."

MARRIAGE IN GERMANY is preceded by the following
Ceremonies and forms :—First, proposal ; second, be-
trothal ; third, a public family dinner or supper of an-
nouncement ; fourth, the protocoling, or testimonials
required by government, being-1. A certificate of vac-
cination. 2. A week-day school ticket, in proof of re-
gular attendance there. 3. A certificate of attendance
upon a religious teacher. 4. A certificate of confirmation.
5. A conduct certificate. G. A service book. 7. A wan-
derbueh (this refers to the compulsory travels of their
handwerks burschen, or handicraftsmen.) 8. An appren-
tice ticket. 9. A statement made and substantiated as to
which. if not considered satisfactory, eccording
destroys the whole thing. 10. A per-
mission from the parents. 11. Residence permission
ticket. 12. A certificate as to the due performar,ce of
militia duties. 13. An examination ticket. 14. A ticket
of business or occupation at the time. The higher classes
have even more difficulties than these. Thus a Bavarian
officer cannot marry until he has deposited enough to
provide £4O per annum for his future family.

propert

to circumstances

THE SISTER OF GEORGE 111.—The official journal of
Copenhagen at the 17th instant, gives an interesting do-
cument, hitherto unpublished, the original of which is in
the secret archives of the State of Copenhagen. It is the
letter which Queen Caroline Matilda, wife of Christian
VII., King of Denmark. wrote during her exile, and on
the day of her death, to her brother, George 111. of Eng-
land. The letter is as follows :—" Sire,—ln the solemn
hour of death I address myself to you, my Royal brother,
in order to manifest to you my feelings of gratitude for the
kindness you have shown me during my life, and particu-
larly during my long misfortunes. I die willingly, for
there is nothing to hind me to this world—neither my
youth (she was then in her 23d year) nor the enjoyme, is
which might sooner or later he my portion. Besides, can
life have any charms for a woman who is removed from all
those whom she loves and cherishes—her husband, her
children, her brothers and sisters ? I, who am a Queen.
and the issue of a Royal race, I have led the most wretched
life, and I furnish to the world a fresh example that a
crown and a sceptre cannot protect those who wear them
from the greatest misfortunes. I declare that lam inno-
cent, and this declaration I write with a trembling hand,
bathed with the cold sweat of death. lam innocent.
The God whom I invoke, who created me, and who will
soon judge me, is a witness of my innocence. I humbly
implore Him that He will, after my death, convince the
world that I have never merited any of the terrible accu-
6ati°" by which my cowardly enemies have sought to
blacken my character, tarnish my reputation, and trample
under foot my Royal dignity. Sire, believe your dying
sister, a queen, and, what is still more, a Christian, who
with fear and horror would turn her eyes towards the next
world if her last confession were a falsehood. Be assured
I die with pleasure, for the wretched regard death as a
blessing. But what is more painful to me even than the
agonies of death, is that none of the persons whom I love
ere near my death bed to give roe a last adieu, to console
we by a look of compassion, and to close my eyes. Ne-
vertheless, lam not alone. God. the only witness of my
innocence, sees me at this moment, when, lying on my
solitary couch, I am a prey to the most excruciating ago-
nies. My guardian angel watches over me; he will soon
conduct me where I may in quiet pray for my well-be-
loved, and even for my executioner. Adieu. my- Royal
brother; may Heaven load you with its blessings, as well
as my husband, my children, England, Denmark, and the
whole world. I supplicate you to allow my body to be
hid in the tomb of my ancestors, and now receive the last
adieu of your unfortunate sister, CAROLINIC gATILDA.
Celle, (Usaorero may 10, 1775."

ThE GREY HAIR. " WAYS AND MEANS'IN FRANCE. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
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• 4.
Come, let me pluck that silver hair ITHE existing French government, under the pretext of Letters addressed to the Editor should be accompanied by the
Which ',Hid thy clustering curls 1 see; real name and address of the writer, not for publication, but
The withering type of 'rime or C.,re putting down socialism and disorder, has set up a pure
as a guarantee of good faith ; this• is indispensably requisite
Hath no, lung, sure, to do with thee. despotism, and carried into practice those views which the in any statement of facts.
Years have not yet impaired the grace Socialists merely advocated as. a theory. It may be that The Editor wishes it to be understood that he does not hold
That charmed me once, that chains me now ; himseif responsible for the opinions or statements of his
And Envy's self, love, cannot *.race there is some short.sighted worldly wisdom in the policy correspondents.
trite wr.nkle on thy placid brow. which has been adopted ; but assuredly it has neither
SIR STRATFORD- CANNING.
. -

SIR,—In your last paper you gavean interesting biographical
sketch of Sir Stratford Canning, who is announced as a candidate
for the representation of Liverpoolat the next election. Perhaps
you will be kind,enough to state, in your paper to-morrow, the
views of Sir Stratford on the two very important subjects of
Protection and Protestantism.

The name of Canning is a very popular one in Liverpool; and
I hope our new candidate is one whom all Conservatives can
support. I trust he is -not-only a Protectionist, but a sound
and consistent Protestant : one who will vote against that
national disgrace—the endowment of Maynooth.
I can assure -you many of- the elec ors are very anxious on
these points. We must have two good sound men brought into
the field,—men about whom there can be no mistake,—whom
we can all support with heart and hand. and then we may bid
farewell to Cardwell and Birch.—l am, Sir, yours truly.
Feb. 2, 18.52. A PROTESTAAT ELECTOR.

We believe that Sir Stratford Canning'a views on both ques-
tions are in accordance with those of our correspondent. —.ED..'

Sir,—l take credit to myself for having, through your columns,
been the first tocall publicattention to the apparently systematic
attempt made by certai n parties, for purposes best I,nown to them -
selves, to depreciate the character of this town, as a port of
embarkation for emigrants, by bringing the most wanton accu•
sations against the" entire system" f carrying on the passenger
trade. The Journal and Mercury have now, lam glad to see,
taken up the subject also; and -we-may, therefore. con:lude
that public opinion will soon be set right in the matter. I
propose in the present letter to•offer come remarks on the re-
port of the select committee, and the suggestions contained
therein.

But, in the first place, it must be remembered that the select
committee was appointed for a one-sided purpose, and with a
onesided object in view, even as the 12th and 13th Vict. c. 33, is a
onesided act, and the government officers appointed under it
one sided and partial agents. The whose proceedings of the
legislature and the government officers are based on the false
assumption that the shipowner, the captain, the passenger
broker, the lodging-house keeper, and the runner, are knaves,
extortioners, and swindlers, eagerly watching every opportu-
nity to defraud the emigrant ;—thus acts of petty tyranny, and
instances of clear injustice, are from time to time occurring,
which it is better policy on the part of the passenger broker
or captain to pat up with quietly, than by reAeting to risk
making an enemy of on.. having such unlimited and uncon-
trolled authority as the government officer. So also the
repoi t of the select committee is entirely confined to the case
of the emigrant, offering scarcely a suggestion for the better
protection of the shipowner, the charterer, or the passenger
broker from the numerous frauds practised on them by emi-
grants' runners; or for relieving them from some of the heavy
burdens of the existing Passenge- Act.

I must, however, pass on to notice some suggestions thrown
:out by the select committee, for further fettering the passenger
trade.

This proposition appears to be considered itte grand remedy
to be applied for protecting emigrants against mancatchers or
runners. I have shown (Letter I) that the mass of emigrants
are perfectly sate in the hands of the runners. and (Letter 2)
that the shipowner, or charterer, is, irr fact, the sufferer un er
the present system. Now, if a government depOt be estab.
fished, it will ire maintained by a direct tax on the emigrant of
Is. a-head, whether he enters the depOt or not—a method of
protecting the emigrant from imposition so very Hibernian in
its character that it may, perhaps, prove acceptable to the
Irish. but will, I imagine, be far otherwise to the English emi-
grant. As to the extortionate c.manrissions paid to lodging-
house keepers by the passenger brokers, a depfit would pro.
batily afford no resief—at least the proprietors of the emigrants'
homes referred to in the report have not thought fit to forego
the demand—and in Ibe c. se of Air. Sabers home, to which
such especial reference is made, the inmates are carefully pre
vented from choosing their own ships, while the " line" which
Air. Sabel chooses to patronise does not, I believe, include a
single regular packet:ship, So much for emigrants' homes.