The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-10-06

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| every word from his lips comes as fresh an
. distinct as the new coin from the mint. AL
b the actors Of the Francois, Odeon, Histor
| i1ue and Gymnase swear by the Protestan
\ pastors OF the church on The Rue St. Hon
ore, built by lie Melcin, for the Peue d.
fOratore in 1921, and converted into tn,
} exchange Of the quarter by the great rev
olution. Let Englishmen swear by hin
in future. | have had great deal Of ex
perience OF French speakers. French mer
speaking English, English speaking French
nay even that wonderful race the Germans
so skill(ul with every tongue, but hav,
never heard foreigner who possessed SC
perfect mastery over another tongue, anc
that tongue the English, as the Rev'd Mr.
Coquerel; he has all our dioms, our &C
.hceni snd, Ihsd alm5a ssid, our associa
4 ton Of ideas. You well recollect how the
Hon. Pierre Soule. OF Louisiana, electrif
ed the Senate some years, with his burning
e!oquence, yet although he has been some
twenty years in the country, every one could
perceive The broad foreign accent, you could
hat Mr.. Coquerel, native Of Paris, could
so master our difficult tongue cannot un.
deIstand, unless old Samson is true Rosi.
crucian. Like bis brother of the Romish
church, he looks as if Protestant abbeys
Jared not worse than brothers OF Bolton
Abbey in the olden time.
But the third Vice President is better
known 10 US than either of the other. or
even than the President himself. The
hearty cheers which greet from the English
as he comes forward, and the enthusiastic
cIres Of the French as they learn his name,
will tell you before hand that ore OF the
most celebrated peace advocates is before
you. He is more. He yields great infiu-
ence in great empire. Sir Robert Peel
he's pronounced Richard Cobden's encOni
um. Lord John Russell has repeatedly en-.
dorsed il. Behold the head of the "Msn.
chester school," | fancied Richard Cob
den great beef.eating dOuble-fste Eng
lishman, with ruddy complexion, sandy hair,
and great blue eyes. What a mistake
Even among Frenchmen you can scarce
see him, for he is below the average height,
while his narrow shoulders, dry withered
looking hair, pale complexion, greyish eye,
resemble that of fifty professors in our New
English Colleges. Indeed, if you saw that
quiet liule man walking under the elms Of
Yale, y,u would be ready to venture he
was one Of the "PIolessors. The "cheap
bread man" has singulafly a scholars look
for one who has been in business--active
commercial life, ever since he could write
legibly and knew the rule OF three. His
style of speaking is unadorned good sense,
seasoned with that spice OF irony which al.
u eys .~lls 80 fefal-- ~~sssAblr, We
saw him TO disadvantage at this meeting,
for he always read his speeches in French
from manuscript before him. Besides our
own Elihu Burnt, whom we all knew well
there is but one person more worthy OF note.
lie IS one Of your prolession-an editor
the bitter, INSCRIPTIONS enemy Of General
Cayaignac-the man TO whom Louis Ma
poleOn owes his election--the antagonist
of Armand Carel in the fatal duel you so
well remember-the ex.deputy-,he infu-
enlial, fearless editor Of La PreSe. Emile
de Giradin is the picture Of a student who
yet thinks on the dress of the outer man.
lie is not more than five feet seven inches.
pale, thin, bent in the shoulders, STOPPING:
his head is somewhat ike Napoleon's in its.
con6guration: his forehead is high and
broad, with a long lock concealng and d.
viding it in the middle as you see in some
of the portraits Of Napoleon. he wears no
beard; bis hands are as delicate as lady's,
and his dress is always and in every rartic-
uIar CONNIE IL fdlH. lie is exceedingly
neaf.sighted, using an eye-glsss every mo.
ment: his eyes are small, and seem ex.
ceedingly infamed from the constant labor
at night never saw more vehement
speaker, from the Monsieur lie President,
his whole body is in play, his ulterance is
quick aud very nervous, and his hands are
always in The most vehement manner see
saving the air. He is very fluent. and
never hesitates for word. When speak
ing he leans half his body over the tribune,
and seems to wish 10 urge on the tribune,
that he might be at the ear of every one OF
his auditors to scream out the truths he feels
so deeply. If you were TO encounter En-.
lie de Giradin any where, you would be
struck by his appearance--even in Paris,
so full OF strange sights you would turn
around to look after the pale, STOPPING,
nervous walker who shot passed you like an
arrow. Douglass JeHold Yves said to he
in attendance, but | did not see him, and
none OF the English whom | addressed
knew him. A man by the name Of Vim
cent, an English workman of some provin-
cial celebrity for 6uency and radicalsm,
was, next TO Mr.. Golden, the great lion
with the Parisians. confess neither fan
cied the man nor his speech; coarse, vul-
gar, conceited fellow, with tone like that
Of the somewhat notorious Mr.. Mafiit, the
preacher, disagreeable whine. You will
see their speeches reported in full in all the
newspapers. must give your readers.
who honor the next Congress Of Peace
with their presence, hint which may be
usefult to them. Our countryman, the Hon.
Mr.. Durkee, who by the way was quite a
lion also, as the enthusiastic lover Of peace,
who had travelled over five thousand miles
to join the Congress, in an excited portion
of his speech forgot the auditory, and turn
ing to the President, addressed him for ten
minutes in his vehement style. Partisan
audiences are not used to this spectacle,
they rubbed their Jumelles with their hand
kerchiefs-for sure it must be mistake on
their part-and looked at the back Of the
speaker-but no, there il was still-then
they laughed that short nervous hysterical
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