Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1851-06-13
The ParfsianPress.

The Partisan Press.
On the subject of the Partisan press. we take the
following article from late number of the London
| Times
The public press, which had sunk to state of di-
minshed importance after the revolution of Februa-
~: and had shown It's inability to the mischief
1t had wrought, displays increased activity and
force. The leading statesmen of the country, ex-
Guided by various circumstances from the high posts
| of responsible Government and Ministerial power,
have many of them fallen back into the ranks of
the army in which they their first laurels. and
more than one of the Partisan journals has again
become the standard of an important party IN the
State. The Assemblee Rationale, journal of about
| l2OOO subscribers, protesting what may be termed
high Tory opinions has been recently purchased by
the leaders of the Royalist party with funds said to
have been supplied by the Count de Chambord and
by some of his Weather adherents.
! To ourselves, who value above all things the in
dependence and obscurty of an English Journalist,
known only to the world by the force of his writings
or the color of his opinions and aiming at nothing
beyond the successful exercise of his vocation, there
is something extremely dyerting in the solemn
vocation of cabinet of editors--men of European
fame and of long experience in government-who
setting out upon the conquest of an empire and
the refrigeration of monarchy with an instrument
which we are accustomed to work by less ponderous
machinery can we envy the condition of the be-
wdered Secretary of the Editorship,' whose duty
it is to father and amalgamate the productions of
such pens as those of M. Guizot, NJ. Mole, and the
other Ministers of the reign of Louis Philippe.
But this proceeding is at least fair and manly
appeal to the judgment Of the country. 1t puts an
end to that period ofnsncere acquescence and false
conformity which the terrors of the republic had in
spired to many of its heartest opponents 1t raises
the standard of the monarchy frank and tangible
grounds, and it will give to that the advantage
of consummate literary ability and political expert
ence. On the other hand this open declaration of
royaist opinions, in connection with the claims of
the Count de Chambord, renders the breach in the
conservative party irreconsilabe, and deaches
this important section altogether from Louis Napole
| ons Government. We shall not presume to artlci-
pate the success which such publication is likely
to obtain but in spite of the gravity of its authors
and the eloquence of its contributors greatly
mistaken if journal of such character the As
sembee Rationale ever produces powerful effect
those masses of population who must eventually de-
termine the fate of the country.
While these arrangements have been completed
by the Royalist leaders, M. de Lamartne has enter
ed the lists at the other end The hero of the
luton of February has assumed the chief edtorship
| of another newspaper, called LIE Pays, and has
strengthened his by the secession from the
Presse of two leading writers of that journal,
who could no longer endure the Socialist jargon of
M. de Grardin. The object of NJ de Lamartine is
the defence of what he terms conservative republi
canism-that is, the maintenance of the existing
form of government by determined resistance to
the revolution ard the revolution, ia what
ever shape they may assume. Probably M de La
MARITIME is of opinion that the convulsion of 1848
not the only occurrence which could place him at
the head of affairs; and it is easy to perceive that
the would-be candidates of 1852 are trying their
strength at this stage of the contest in the columns
of the press. The Steele has also hosted the coors
of Gen. Cavaignac. and probably long M. Theirs
will find some organ for the projects which he i'm
parts to the house of Orleans.
A in the Lunatic Asylum.
The editor of the New York Mirror gives particulars
the President Fillmore the Lunac Asy
um The following is a brief extract:-
On entering the chapel where some two hundred
of these unforunates seated, the overseer in
troduced the President of the United States, when
all rose respectfully bowed, and resumed their seats
Each member of the party was then introduced by
name when the same ceremony was profoundly re-
peated DR.. -NIaltby, wise lunatic then arose and
welcomed the President in a strain of graceful and
touching eoquence that drew tears from every eye.
He is TALL thin pale man, with penetrating eyes,
fine voice, and gestures belonging to the polite
tory of " gentlemen of the old school," The Presi-
dents reply was also very happy and affecting. So
orderly and so we'll behaved company surely has
not greeted him in all his travels. In of the fe-
male wards the whole party was individually intro
duced to elegantly dressed and most accomplished
lady, the daughter of one of the most distinguished
| LAWYERS New York has ever produced. She had the
right word ready for every who addressed her,
and presented the President with sweet little bo-
quet of her own arranging in the most tasteful and
graceful manner. We the same act of pre-
sentation performed hundred times, but in no in
stance with such exquisite simplicity and grace as
marked the Offering of this accomplished lady. She
is about forty years of age; and in mentioning the
names of some of the distinguished men she had en-
terained at her fathers house, added but for the
last years l have been-very much out of the
world"
There young girl in the Asylum who also
attracted much attention by her beauty of person
and elegance of dress. She did not appear to be
seventeen years of age, and there not the ght-
est indication of lunacy of irregularity,"
about her
She stood in the door of her which was adorn-
ed with flowers gracefully acknowledging the bows
of the visitors, though one presumed to speak to
her. She wore beautiful wreath of peach and
cherry blossoms in her dark hair; the only orna-
ments appropriate to her and touching beauty.
Thinking of the q fair Ophea" and the heart-hro-
ken q Lammermoor' and all the delicate feminine
harpstrings that were ever broken by sin,
we left the beautiful lunatic, and for hours after
wards every sound seemed moan, every breeze a
sigh, and even the drops of the morning." which
glistened in the flowers, looked more like tears of
sadness than gems of joy.
| Siberia.
We find (translated) in the New York Tribune
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