Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-04-09

process. G. H. LEWIS.
P. ST. have said nothing of the table being
moved, simply because, before the Medium came,
we tried the experiment ourselves, and found
that by motion of the knees, which should not
be visible to any one sitting round the table, we
could huge oaken table, of size and
weight which deted our moving it with the hands,
while sitting; and, when Mrs Hayden endea-
voured to move it, as she had volunteered, Sir
William twined his legs around the leg of the
table. and prevented her. He felt her straining
to move it and she must have thought the table
too heavy, for at length she desisted.
NAPOLEON III.
NAPOLEON THE THIRD, By A. De La Gueronn,ere.
London ViSetelly q Co.
Monsieur De La Gueronniere is sworn trumpe-
ter to the Emperor Louis Napoleon, and blows
blast with his brazen French horn on this occa-
sion, with which falsehood is enlivened, and truth
stunned, his master delighted, and every honest
man Disguised.
Louis Napoleon has everything that power and
wealth can command. He has all the imperial
delights. With the aid Of his paid Janissares,
he can gut his cruelty to the swords hilt; with
his wanton courtezans he can gorge his lust to
the fulness of his appetite; and with his obsequi-
Gus hatterers crafty his vanity to its utmost He
enjoys all the luxuries but good conscience
To fill that void, parasites are ever ready, with
oily tongues at his ear, to pour thick, full, lu-
DficatlnS Tue Oh 10 SOlteu the eCuOeS OF
his crimes, and to stile the harsh rebukes of vir
tue.
France is always obsequious to the last new
master French versatility is never at loss; it
passes, as quick thought, with true national
agility, from death to a wedding, from revo.
luton to coronation. Fresh from revolutionary
riot and violence, it washes its hands of all the
stains of blood, smothers the odors of Democra-
cy in the perfume OF royalty, strips OFT the
magnole of the streets, and puts on the habit
brode of the palace, and turns graceful prouette
to the tune of viue PEmpereur. This facility of
change is the weakness of the French character,
which is fatal to all vigor and permanence of po-
Gtcal virtue.
Louis Napoleon now Emperor of all the French,
and but the other day the Harlequin of Stras-
bourg and Boulogne, the laughing stock of Eu-
rope, is the latest exemplifcation of French poll
teal caprice.
1t is not surprising that French Emperor, in
the might and right of possession, should find
among his troops of parasites, servitors, and fun
keys, Monsieur de la Gueronnere, to do the
foul thing of lying in the face of history, and
bearing false witness against truth. 1t must be
allowed that Monsieur de la Gueronniere is
skilful hand. He belongs to nation of artistes;
French cuisinser, with his sauces and skilful
turn of the spit, convert cat into hare; a
French cotfeur, with his curling tongs and poma.
tum, can make a Frenchman presentable; and
French confectioners are famous, all over the
world, for turning out in chocolate CONNECTIONS
and sugar plums the dirtest objects. Monsieur
de la Gueronniere is one of the most skilful of
the latter kind, and proves himself to be the most
expert of artistes by his specimen of Louis Napo
leon in confectionery.
He is the Monseurs sugared Emperor, that
ought to take its place in the windows of the ia
nous confectionery and chocolate shops of the
Rue Vivenne, by the side of those other sweet
indecencies, at which Frenchmen water their
mouths, and every one else turns away with sick
ness and disgust
''What problem is this that presents itself to
my pencila 1 search for light upon that face. and
l see nothing but shade. On looking more close
ly at it, my mind is gradually led to recall that
face, so dark, so sinister, so passionless and cold
which. in its day, was called The Iron Mask
have read somewhere, in the annals of those
times, that the jailors of that mysterious person
age had remarked that strange phenomenon had
exhibited itself in that terrible tragedy. The
principle of life was SO powerfully condensed be-
meath that lnteXlble covering-so intense a ne
eessity to come to light was manifested, that at
certain moments 1t was revealed even through the
polished steel, and animated it, as it might have
done the human face. At those times the mask
assumed the expression of nature. The veins
seemed to palpitate, the lips to move, the ewes to
brighten up, the temples to beat. The mask had
transformed itself into man. In like manner,
this face, in appearance so motionless and insen.
sible, IS but the mask of the man within, ardent
and powerful. Those eyes are dull, but as pro-
found as the thought in which they dive and which
rises at times in their orbits, as the fame rises
from the hearth whence it derives its fire. That
brow is gloomy as fate, but as expansive as crea-
tive genius. Those lips are coorless, but full of
expression delicately turned severed-scarce.
ly sufficiently parting, and open just to allow
the curt and precise expression of a will emana-
ting from deep reflection, and inexorably resolved.
That voice is indolent and drawing, but self
reliant; and the indifference which shows itself
is bat the excess of that confidence. COURAGE
concealed by tmidity ,-resouton disguised 6y
gentleness. -infexibility softened by mildness, /.
policy hidden by good nature,-life under mar.
ble,-fre under ashes in a word, something
partaking of Augustus and of Titus, but with the
face of Werter,-that type of German sentiment
tality. Such does Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
appear"
This is certainly an ingenious attempt at al
chemy, the conversion of the baser metals into
gold.
Victor Hugo, however, in the stern spirit of
plain republican, turns out the figure Of the En-
peror in his natural state, without any goze or
sweetened confeetion.
Louis Bonaparte," says Victor Hugo. sc is
man of middle height, cold, pale, slow, and has
the appearance of a person not quite awake.
lie Is vulgar, puerile, theatrical. and
vain parsonage. Those who were invited by him