The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-12-16
Measher's Lecture on Australia.

| We copy below the Lecture of Thomas Francis
! Meagher, on Australia, delivered at Metropoli-
| tan Hail. in New York two weeks ago. The
audience was very large. There was fully 4,5O0
persons in the building. 4 large number went
! away Not only was every seat in every part
of the building occupied but the stage, the pas
sage ways, and every available standing spot
were dersely crowded; in fact, the people were
as densely wedged together as it was possible
for them TO be. Mr.. Meagher made his appear
ance on the stage exactly at eight O'Clock, ac
companied by some friends, and was greeted
with prolonged and hearty cheers. lie said:-
The great clock of the Bastile ticks inaudlbe
in its inner court there, at its ease hour after
hour, as if nothing special for it or the world
were passing" The secrets of those ''eight
grim towers are not yet disturbed. These two
cannon there, mounted with silver-the ancient
gift of his Majesty of Siam to Louis XIV.-are
not vet soiled by the touch of the people. Cam
mile Desmoulins has not yet stuck the green
leaf in his hat; has not yet mounted his char
in the Palais Royale; has not yet exclaimed
"Friends shall we die like hunted hares like
sheep bounded into their penfold bleating for
mercy!" Mirabeau has not yet exclaimed
looking at the poor king covered with his jewels
and his ribbands. ssBehold the victim already
adorned for the sacrifce!' Marie Antoinette
may still sit beneath the canopy of purple velvet
sprinkled with golden lilies, in the church OF
Notre Dame. The mobiles may still surround
her in their black coats, silk cloaks lace cravats
and feathered hats; or, tramphng upon the ma
tional ckade, pledge her their swords IN deli
rious festivities at Versailles. Not for another
year will Madame de Montmorin, wife of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, looking down from
the gallery in the hall at st. Louis, and checking
the daughter of Necker in her exuitation, whis-
per to her ..You are wrong to rejoice; this E.
vent forebodes much misery to France and to
ourselves" The winds still in their caves; /;
but there are signs in the heavens, and strange
things have come to pass. The parliament OF
Paris hal passed a decree, for the second time
against the letres de cdche, and for the recall OF
all exiled persons. The Able de Sieyes had
writtch-..The Tiers Etat are nothing. What
ought they to be Everything La Rochefou
ca had interrupted the Archbishop of AK, who
had said that tithes were the spontaneous offer
ings of christian piety, exclalmng, 'tne spon-
taneous offering of Christian piety-on which
there are forty thousand lawsuits IN this
realm % The courtiers were heard to applaud
! in private the Declaration of Rights drawn up
by jefferson. The English had evacuated the
city of New York The officers who served un-
der Lafayette at Brandywine and Monmouth
| had returned home-had been everywhere recei-
we'd with honor-were equally caressed by the
philosophers and the ladies. Necker had been
| recalled from exile, and instructed to repair
| the finances of the kingdom There was an en-
ormous deficit in the treasury-so enormous
that it was called .'the abyss Something was
| at hand. The clouds were moving up.
| The tops of the mountains were already hid.
| Yes, even the bronze figure of the king on thai
tall monument was growing dim in the thlcken-
| ing mist. "Far down in their vaults In the
huge prison which had only another year tf