Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-02-07

bolized upon one side of the brass Upon the
other there should be portrait of the gallant
traveller standing in a corner of the Morgue /
before him, alying on its back, with q nose
crushed fiat like negro, with its cheeks swell |
ed out exactly as if it were loudly blowing a
trumpet the naked, liyid corpse Of robust
we'll young woman, Of about 30 years
ofage,a and at his side with eyes steadily fixed
upon the revolving spectacle, and seemingly
enjoying it, "a fashionably and exceedingly
well-dressed lady, with two daughters, one
about l6, the other about IL; all three with
flowers in their bonnetsV Or, if the picture
be deemed too hideous, we would beg for the
reverse of our medal the full-length figure Of a
mother standing with her own infant child at
the Founding Hospital Of Paris, placing it in
the turnaboutn before the gate, and in the
act of ringing the bell, in answer to whose
summons that relief and assistance to the help
less and deserted offspring are afforded which,
strange and dreadful to say, Of all the ami
mails in creation, no other living mother but
woman would accept"
fit were possible to adopt a system of friend
| ly reciprocity between the two countries, and
for England to give to France the peculiar ad-
vantages enjoyed by this island in exchange
for the great benefits which France is quite
competent to confer upon us, unparalleled in
Il
glory Of these neighboring Kingdoms. The
slaughter houses Of Paris, kept sacredly with
out the gates, and models Of cleanliness and
| propriety wherever they are met with, are in
stitutions which should bring the blush Of
shame into our cheeks. The cOnsiderate care
and tenderness exhibited for animals, who are
not forced to undergo all the horrors of purga-
tory before receiving their final reward in the
comfortable Elysium of the human stomach
are among the most admirable evidences of
true civilization, and standing reproaches
against our own gratuitous cruelty and short
| sighted disregard Of decency and health
| From the omnibus establishments we may
learn the wisdom of returning the services Of
our beasts of burden with something more
grateful than the lash and the goad, and how
much more profitable it is to sustain than to
wear out the strength of our most willing, al
belt dumb and unreasoning, dependents. We
still leave the burial of our dead to the mercy
of harpies, who fatten on corruption, and take
advantage of our griefs to take measure of our
pockets, and still pollute the atmosphere of life
with poison generated in death But Paris
more merciful than London, secures becoming
sepulture for the hhmblest, and separates by
the broadest lines of demarcation, the habita-
tions of the living from the last homes of the
dead
| Sir Francis Head visited the military schools
of Paris, and was edited by the style Of educa-
ton which he found imposed upon the future
officers of the French army. "The military
system Of that army" he writes has ordained
that no one can be appointed to the rank of
sous-lieutenant until he has either served at
least two years as non-commissioned officer in
some corps of the army or for two years has been
an eleve of Ecole Mlitaire de ST. Cyr, or Poly
technique, and has, moreover, passed all the ex-
amnations thereof" If our young officers are
anxious to inquire into the nature of these ex-
aminations, we refer them to the Fdggot of
Sticks They will agree with us, that, what
ever our attainments in other respects, military
instruction is not precisely the science for
which Englishmen are chiefly to be distin-
guished The schools of Paris were not the
only establishments that called forth the admi-
ration of our baronet. The kitchens astonished
him much more. He visited half the asylums
Of the metropolis-from the hospital for aged
women, which at this moment houses 5000
helpless creatures, rendering the last stage OF
life the easiest for the worn-out traveller to
bear down to the opposite institution of La
Creche which receives in the very first stage of
life children whose poor parents are compelled
TO leave their homes for the day, and who there
fore need other tenderness and care during the
hours of inevitable absence There was much
| to delight the heart and instruct the mind of
| the visiter In all such charitable houses but
the Kitchens alone elected his wonder In every
instance the application Of heat was so scien-
tifcally arranged, that within one or two hot
plates Of very small SIZE the smoke of which
was carried below, the diurnal cookery for
hundreds went on with less noise and hustle,
and with far more gastronomc success, than
" fish and a joint" are frequently prepared un-
der our own clumsy culinary arrangements.
Could France, then, we say, communicate to |
us across the Channel, by electric telegraph or
otherwise some Of the enumerated advantages
she enjoys and others which we have all the
inclination, but, unfortunately, not space enough
to mention, how gladly, and how modestly
withal, would we send back, in token of our
gratitude few samples of our own worldly
possessions, the value of which time and expe-
rience have so satisfactorily tested. Fan would
we give to France the self-government which
is the very salt Of our political and social life
self-government, which is a law unto Itself
the child of liberty, the parent Of order, the
solid foundation of real security Gladly too.
would we transplant the universal love Of law,
the obedience to constituted authority, which,
next to religious faith stands highest in Eng
lands list of moral obligations. We will not
boast especially at this moment that we need
no army to ext0rt spurious loyalty and to
confirm the nations liberty We will say no
more of the policeman's baton that suficed to
keep millions tranquil during the excited year
that has now throbbed its last but when Sir
Francis Head tells us that so perfect is the or
ganization of the Partisan police that it was
impossible for him to put his leg out of bed
without having the fact notified at the Prefect-
ure, we do absolutely yearn to lend Policeman
X for one short week to his Partisan brothers,