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ITALY

The Gazette of Milan, of the 18th, says that it
ported that Durando, having heard that the capita
lation of Vizenza was not executed by the Austrians, had
tfcl at the sound of the cannonade. Learning that the
0,..D0ke of Savoy, at the head of 14,000 men, had crossed
bridge at Ronco, General Durando had retraced his
"M's, and, in concert with the Duke and General Pepe,
Who brought from 4,000 to 5,000 men, he had beaten the
ustrians, who in this affair had 8,000 men put to hors
de combat. One of the Archdukes was reported to have
been killed.
The Risorgimento
erenchtisuellicheejlave opened lists for receiving the signatures of
'lzens as desire to demand formally from the
toGovernment the assistance of a French army
!yards gaining the independence of Italy. Notice of
this
-vet) had been given, not only to the Venetian Go-
vernment, but likewise to the Government of Lombardy.

says, that private individuals

Yesterday the Parliamentary Committee decided that
kr. Charles Townley had not been duly elected for Sligo

borough

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THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.-THE DUCHESS

OF ORLEANS

(From a Sermon by the Rev. W. Carus Wilson.)

Amidst this dark and frightful picture of anarchy and
revolution, one bright spot presents itself for our refresh-
ment and relief, and one well calculated to illustrate the
privilege and blessedness recognised in our text.
The King of the French, naturally anxious for the
future welfare of his kingdom, proposed his grandson as
his successor, and the Duchess of Orleans, his daughter-
in-law for the regency during her son's minority.
At first, appearances are favourable for the recognition
of the appointment. The Duchess takes two of her
little sons, one in each hand, and presses through the

crowd into the Chamber of Deputies. How perilous her
position ! Before she was seated her little ones were
severed from her grasp by the pressure of the lawless
mob ; and there could not but be a mother's pang and
apprehension as to what might be their fate while con-
cealed from her view. Moreover, there was no ignorance
as to the extremely critical condition of the King and
Queen, who, in their flight, were far more likely to fall
into the hands of enemies than friends. She saw, too,
the Chamber packed with an infuriate and blood-thirsty
rabble, who were bent on the annihilation of royalty, and
were already exhibiting hands newly stained with blood ;
for the massacre had been fearful in and around the
Palace. And what could she and her little ones expect
when such was the maddened haste and impatience of the
assassins, that they would not tolerate the spectacle of a
portrait of their exiled monarch which hung against the
wall, but one of them must needs level his pistol at it,
and tear it into disguise ! But there is the Duchess, not
shrinking from an exposure to which every sense of duty
to her country, and her sovereign, and her son, prompted
her. There she is seen, seated before her enemies—calm,
and dignified, and collected—how is this ? We admit
that it was a heroism which has its parallel in instances
where the possession of Christian principles and Christian
resources could not for a moment be supposed to exist;
but admitting this, it is a refreshment amidst this dark
tragedy to know that the Duchess of Orleans had not to
rely' on a natural fortitude, or to turn to the uncertainty
and precariousness of her own sufficiency; but that she
went down into this scene of tremendous extremity under
the shelter of a spiritual refuge, and the sufficiency of a
spiritual strength which she had not then to seek, but
with which she had been long acquainted.
I will give you some extracts of a letter from Paris
which I received some time ago, little thinking that I
should then have to connect it with so melancholy a
sequel.
" Since I came to Paris I have been deeply interested in
the Duchess of Orleans and her little boys. Surely there
never was a more fearful tragedy than the heir of France
—the beloved husband, and the tender father, in a moment
dashed from his carriage, and brought almost lifeless to a
neighbouring house, were he in a few hours expired.—
The Duchess was most deeply attached to him and he to
her. * * The Duchess is a monument of stricken
grief. But yet, she says, 'My only refuge is in prayer.'
Her Sabbaths are passed in our humble Lutheran chapel ;
and lately, when the Tuileries were brilliant on the Lord's
day with the festive scene, she and her excellent mother,
klenburgh, were seen kneeling

less o:

st our humble flock, and receiving the Lord's sup-
per. The chapel she attends has an excellent pastor,
Mons. Valette. He visits the Duchess constantly. Ah,
Mr. Valette (she said one day), von are come, and you are
welcome ; speak to me of my soul—speak to me of my
soul.' The Bible is her study, and her noble parent
delights to be her companion in reading its holy pages.
`My children (she says), oh how shall I bring them up
for God !' I heard the above, and much more from a

very intimate friend of the DucLess of Elchingen, who is
the favoured friend of the poor Duchess of Orleans.
The Duchess of E., though still a Roman Catholic, is a
devoted Christian, reading constantly the Word of God,
and building up in the true faith the Duchess of Orleans.

It is very interesting to hear of their happy intercourse.
The Duchess of E. is accustomed to pay several visits
during the week to the Tuileries, and being onca pre-
vented by illness from ministering as she was wont to the
royal widow, she received from her a note, directing her
to read the 76th Psalm, and saying, "we cannot meet
to-day, as we are accustomed, let us meet at a throne of

How wonderful are the dealings of God with his child-
ren, and what evident marks of covenant love and faith-
fulness rest upon all his dispensations towards them,
however wrapt up in mystery for a season ! We have
only to tarry the Lord's leisure, and he will bring us
forth to the light, and we shall behold his right-
eousness. It might seem a frowning Providence which
so suddenly deprived this excellent woman of an affec-
tionate husband, and at once marred her prospects
of coming to the throne ; but he who knows the end from
the beginning, knew full well that a throne, in this world,
was not to be her portion, even if her husband had sur-
vived ; and the grief which became her widowed portion,
proved the best discipline and preparative for the troubles
which have now so thickly accumulated upon her.

CHOOSING A WATERING-PLACE

Any one who occasionally employs himself in watching
his fellow-men in order to find food

proceedings of

for liis mirth, has a rich treat in beholding not only the
various ways in which different individuals act with regard
to " watering-places," but the various reasons which lead
them to select different " spas." Shoals of people an-
nually visit some one or other. To a great many of these
health is a very subordinate motive. They go because
they have nowhere else to go, or because they want to get
married themselves, or have daughters whom they wish to
see married. " Thither," says Scott, speaking of one,
" comes the saunterer, anxious to get rid of that weari-
some attendant, himself ; and thither come both males
and females, who, upon a different principle, desire to
make themselves one." The intellectual man or the
woman of taste seek some quiet, retired spot, and quaff
elegant preparations of iron or water, impregnated with
bubbles of carbonic acid gas, Nature's champaign.

ti Not so others of a class beneath them. Harrowgate is a
' x very favourite resort of a section of Yorkshire clothiers,
Lancashire cottorr-spinners, and bagmen of both counties.
?; x It possesses for them a two-fold charm. First, they have,
1I . as it were, a quid pro quo for their money. The sulphur
F'b spa at Harrowgate smells and tastes as only the sulphur
pi spa at Harrowgate can smell and taste. Nothing equals
it, nothing in nature resembles it. They swallow pints of
g it, and its effects nearly tear their very bowels out. They
bathe in it warmed up • and lest they should lose any of
its delectable fumes, they get the top of their tub covered
g in with sacks. Secondly, if the internal twinges gratify
• the bowels of " feyther" (this word is nowadays pro-
nounced "popar"), the bustle and the merriment of its
sort, of which the place is full, please the little hearts of
the country misses. Here they have every night at
"Queen's" or " Binn's" a dance, every day a pic-nic,
and, what is better than all, time and opportunity to con-
coct lies innumerable to retail out to their three bosom
friends when they reach home relative to the " offers"
they have had. If you could believe what any of them
said, every one who asked her to dance, every one who
handed her over a style, every one who took wine with her,
made her an immediate offer of matrimony. Nay, if she be
to it - flint -

put, ana mums dome young spinning swain was
thinking of asking her to takesome pigeon-pie, but refrained
from so doing on seeing how small a bit was left and how
hungry he himself felt—he,.too, she will declare, made her
an offer. Not that the three bosom friends actually
swallow all this, but they too visit watering-places, and
they too come back with tales of like wonderful conquests,
and " claw me and I'll claw thee," is their rule of
action.

Those who visit watering-places in search of health
generally suffer from a similar indisposition, well enough
expressed by the term " out of sorts." This means that
the functional actions of the nervous and digestive system
are deranged ; not much, but still so as to produce uneasy
sensations. This state of things is generally brought
about by the two great evils of our social system—having
too much or too little to think about. The anxious and
perhaps embarrassed merchant has had his nerves on the
stretch for eleven long months, on almost every day of
which his ledger has been opened with a sigh and closed
with a groan. Even if more more fortunate, he has had
an anxious heart for all that time. On the other hand
the retired merchant, with more money than he can
spend, from habit and mental constitution has nothing
upon which he can employ his mind ; so, after eleven
months of ennui and idleness, he too is indisposed. From
analagous causes, an immense variety of other characters
become " out of sorts." These visit their favourite
watering-place, drink its waters deeply for a month, and
return home undoubtedly better, if not quite well.
Those afflicted with chronic complaints, although less
certainly, are often in like manner benefited. This they
repeat year after year, and who can wonder that they ex-

piate upon the efficacy of thz
agrees with their constitutior

'—Fraser

In 1776, the Duchess of Charteris beat her husband in
a foot-race of 200 yards for 200 guineas. The duchess
was allowed to secure her petticoats above the knees.
An Englishman who is good for anything at all, will
gain nothing by what is called " citizenship,' or any such
humbug. We have not the least objection to our lively
neighbours being citizens if they like it ; but, so far, it is
evident that citizen and soldier, citizen and debtor, citizen
and defaulter, citizen and idle man, citizen and bankrupt,
citizen and state pauper, mean the same thing.

EFFECT OF ENGLISH HAND-SHAKING.--A native
having visited England in company with his master, and
travelled by railway while here, on returning to his native
country told his fellow-countrymen that " in England
horse no good, bullocky no good ; plenty whiff"—at the
same time drawing his hand quickly before him to indi-
cate the velocity of the railway carriage. His lubra
(wife) hearing of his return, hastened to embrace him :
,he coolly extended his hand a l'Anglais, and said, " How
d'ye do ?" She, not understanding this extraordinary
conduct of her spouse, sank down on the ground, and
sobbed aloud.—Wilkinson's South Australia.

ANECDOTE OF THE REDBREAST.—Last winter a pair of
robins were daily fed near the kitchen door of Mr. James
Neild, of Oulton, the male bird occasionally flying through
the open•window to pick up the crumbs from off the floor,
and so remarkably tame has he become that he will fly to
and feed out of the hands of one of the family. During
the present season they have reared three broods of young
—the nests being built in an old wall within a few feet of
each other—and are again occupied in the construction of
another nest. Whenever gardening operations are in
progress, one of the old birds is generally near to pick up
the vermin, and it is a remarkable fact that these valuable
birds will sometimes carry to their young in a few minutes
between forty and fifty small worms and grubs. During
a heavy shower a few weeks ago, the gardener took refuge
in an arbour at some distance from his work, when he was
quickly followed by his innocent companion, who perched
on the branch of a tree, warbled his song of joy, as if in
gratitude for the bounties of Providence.