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CHARLEMAGNE AND NAPOLEON CONTRASTED.—We
may study Charlemagne's achievements on the borders of
the Rhine: better than in the book may the traveller see
Charlemagne's genuine character pictured upon the lovely
mers are con-
unfolding landscape : the huge domminsters, the for-
tress

of religion; and yellow sunny rocks studded with
the vine • the mulberry and the peach, ripening in the
ruddy orchards ; the succulent potherbs and worts which
stock the Bauer's garden,—these are the monuments and
memorials of Charlemagne's mind. The first health
raarlocbri when the flask is Anemia at Johannishercr

be the monarch's name who gave the song-inspiring yin-
tage. Charlemagne's superiority and ability consisted
chiefly in seeking and seizing the immediate advantages,
whatever they might be, which he could confer upon
others

-.6 or obtain for himself. He was a man of fore-
thought, ready contrivance, and useful talent. He would
employ every expedient, grasp every opportunity, and
,rovide for each day as it was passing by. The educa-
an tional movement resulting from Charlemagne's genius
y- I
I was ractical. rr"- he V-- • his
The most ac-

wo main objects hat. .nerein upon
conscience and his mind. The first, was the support of
the Christian Faith ; his seven liberal sciences circled
round theology, the centre of the intellectual system. No
argument was needed as to the obligation of uniting sa-
cred and secular !earning, because the idea of disuniting
His other object in patro-
Aism.g learning truction was the benefit of the
State. He sought to train good men of business ; judges
well qualified, ready penmen in his chancery; and this
sage desire expanded into a wide instructional field.
Charlemagne's exertions for promoting the study of the
Greek language—his Greek professorships at Osnaburgh
or Saltzburgh—have been praised, doubted, discussed, as
something very paradoxical ; whereas his motives were
plain, and his machinery simple. Greek was, to all in-
tents and purposes the current language of an opulent and
powerful nation, required for the transaction of public
affairs. A close parallel, necessitated by the same causes,
exists in the capital of Charlemagne's successors. The
Oriental Academy at Vienna is constituted to afford a
supply of individuals qualified for the diplomatic inter-
course, arising out of the vicinity and relations of the Aus-
trian and Ottoman dominions, without any reference to
the promotion of philology. We find the same at home.
If the Persian language be taught at Hai!eybury, it is to
fit the future Writer of his Indian office. He may study
Ferduzi or Hafiz, if he pleases, hut the cultivation of lite-
rature is not the intent with which the learning is be-
Napoleon sought the creation of an anti- Chris-
tian imperial pontificate—the caliphate of positive civilisa-
tion ; his aspiration was the establishment of absolute do-
minion, corporeal and intellectual ; the mastery over
body and soul ; faith respected only as an influential and
venerable delusion ; the aiding powers of reliuion accepted
until she should be chilled out, and the unfed flame expire,
and positive philosophy complete her task of emancipat-
ing the matured intellect from the remaining swathing
bands which had been needful during the infancy of human
society. And the theories of Charlemagne and Napoleon,
though irreconcileably antagonistic in their conception,
would, were either fully developed, become identical in
their result, notwithstanding their contrarieties. They
start in opposite directions, but, circling round their
courses, would, were it permitted that they should perse-
vere continuously and consistently—meet at the same
point of convergence, and attain the same end. More-
over, the territorial empires of Napoleon and Charle-
magne had their organically fatal characteristic in com-

never entertained

Each founder attempted to accomplish political
impossibilities—to conjoin communities unsusceptible of
amalgamation ; to harmonise the discordant elements
which could only be kept together by external force,
whilst their internal forces sprung them asunder—a unity
without internal union. But even as the wonderful
agencies revealed to modern chemistry effect, in a short
hour, the progresses which nature silently elaborates dur-
a long growth of time, so in like manner did the energies
of civilisation effect in three years that dissolution for
which, in the analogous precedent, seven generations were
required. Palgrave's _History of Normandy and of
England.

SELECTIONS FROM " PUNCH."

AWFUL OCCURRENCE AT AN EVENING PARTY.—" My
goodness, Emily ! they're beginning the quadrille, and
here's all my ' back hair' coming down ! ! Whatever
shall I do ?"

ARISTOCRATIC SPORTS EXTRAORDINARY.—The Lord
Chamberlain, on the occasion of her Majesty's state visits
to the Opera, has lately gone through his unique and in-
teresting feat of walking backwards, up-stairs and down-
stairs, through the lobbies, and across the corridors, hold-
ing in his hands—during the whole time occupied in the
performance—a pair of massive silver candlesticks. The
feat was got through in the usual clean and masterly style,
to the great admiration of all who witnessed it. The
Chamberlain went off at a slapping pace, turning all the
corners with his usual adroitness, and taking the stairs as
pleasantly as a regularly-trained hunter would take a
hedge or a hurdle. We know of nothing equal to this
exploit since the splendid ichievement of the Chelsea
Chicken, who ran a mile forwards, half-a-mile backwards,
six yards on his hands, three furlongs in a sack, and an acte
on stilts, picking up by the way six new-laid eggs, a
pound of cherries, placed three yards apart, and con-
cluding by throwing three somersaults over a clothes-
basket. It will be observed, however, that the Chicken
had nothing in his hand, and in comparing the feats above
described, great allowance must be made for, and great
weight attached to, the massive silver candlesticks.

FLAX V. llEmr.—One of the transparencies in Cheap-
side on the occasion of the Queen's visit to the City re-
presented a crop of flax, with the inscription, " Flax the
Remedy of Ireland's Distress." It is to be hoped that
this plant will prove more efficacious than a kindred one
has been found in the treatment of Irish disorders. In
" the land of misrule and half hanging and flame," hemp
has been abundantly tried without success. There is
promise in flax of answering considerably better than
hemp.
SUBJECT FOR A PlCTURE.—lrritable gentleman dis-
turbed by a bluebottle.

HERALDIC FRAGMENTS.—Nobody has a right to 5
" coat" who has never had a grant of one ; but many as-
sume them on credit, or get credit for them, on very ques-
tionable grounds. When you marry an heiress, you
quarter the arms of her house—when she has money, you
quarter yourself in her house, likewise. " Differences"
in heraldry, like differences in life, have their origin in
family matters. A difference is worn by a son to shew
his numerical order in the family. Thus, a third
son wears a " mollet" for his difference ; though many a
younger son in life finds that a difference leads to his
having no mollet, mullet, or other fish, at all accessible.

REPEAL OF WINTER IN lIYDE PARK.—The folks of
Marylebone have been, as a body, the first to declare in
favour of a total repeal of the fogs, sleet, snow, and wind,
of an English winter ; Mr. Paxton having guaranteed the
absence of the terrible old tyrant from, at least, eighteen
acres of Hyde Park ; where Eden may be raised under the
Crystal Palace, and kept in perennial bloom. The City
of London is expected very soon to speak upon the matter.
The civic taste for exotic turtle will—who can doubt it ?
declare for congenial orange groves, and for other lemons
than those to be found in winter time in certain mouths
in the larders of certain taverns. No time is to be lost ;
for we understand that Colonel Sibthorp is about to pre-
sent a petition declaratory of the vested rights of an Eng-
lish winter, as shewn, time out of mind, in coughs, colds,
blue noses, chilblains, and chapped fingers..