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FRESH it often to support life already existing
So, no doubt the ecclesiastical and political order
of Europe has always served an excellent present
use for humanity; but its grand function has been
to noursh the germ Of that superior social life
which ia now but dawning. 1t is, in truth, nothing
more than succulent egg, upon which the Divine
Spirit has been patiently broOdDg or incubating for
centuries, until at last we see it ready to vanish
from sight in the spendOrs of that new and perfect
organization to which it has 80 long unconsciously
mnisteIed. But this is matter for volume; at
least for another letter II. J.
From Our Own Correspondent
PARIS, July 90, 1851.
You will have learned from the English prints, or
by telegraph to your news-agent at Liverpool, oil
the death of Beranger. He died at ABS, July 10.
The same evening notice, signed BY the Project
of Police, was pacarded at the corners and on the
dead walls, the twofold object Of which was to
make, what in the United States would be called,
political capital of the great dead for the En-
peror, and to prevent political capital being made
of him for the Opposition. Accordingly, itspeakso OF
Beranger as the national poet whose songs have
helped to perpetuate in the hearts of the people
Z" the memory of the imperial gores, and an
pOunces that the EmperOr's Government Will rem
der to his remains the homage of public funeral;
on the other hand the Project pretending that pot-
ical partsans have the purpose of making the
soltmnity an occasion Of political manifestation,
advises the public that no one will be permitted TO
Join the funeral cortege except Government depu'
tations and persons invited by letter. The next
morning, before the legal interval of "a hours be-
tween decease and burial had expired, the danger
GUS corpse was hurried to Pere Ia Chaise. Largo
bodies oftroops and great police force were on
foOt-sOme TO accompany the peaceful cOrtege;
others to thickly line the streets through which IL
passed. Outside of these stood the real mourners-
the great People whom Beranger so sincerely SYM
pathized with, in whose mouths his songs are really
familiar as household words in whose hearts nc &C.
cupied the foremost place of any Frenchman., In
the Rue Vendome, on the Boulevard du Temple on
the Quais of the Canal st. llartln-wherever
there was open space on the line of the procession,
they were gathered in dense masses; others filled
the windows and looked down from the house-toPs.
All bowed their heads as the coffin passed. There
was no disorder nor sign of disorder among the
crowd. The deep, respectful silence was broken
only by cries of " Honor to Beranger." The shops
on the route followed by the cortege were closed,
and the curriers' very generally left their work to do
and Monday, thrODgs of wOrkmen with their wives
and children went to Pere la Chaise to look at Man.
uel's tomb. where the body was Professionally de-
posted.
On its side, Government is doing its best to secure
IFS claim to Beranger. 1t will build monument,
crowned with a statue or bust, to his memory; and,
through its organs, joining in the universal pean,
strives to represent the national poet as little more
than Bonapartist poet 1t is true that the songs
written BY Beranger in honor OF the glories OF I'm
peral France have done more than all the writings
Of historians to strengthen and perpetuate in the
popular mind the memory and glory OF the first En-
mror. But they were written under the Restora-
tion, from spirit of opposition to the BourbOns
and from a spirit Of patriotism. He has himself
written that his enthusiastic and constant adnlra-
ton for the genius Of the Emperor never blinded his
eyes TO the steadily increasing despOtsm of the En-
pre- SIN 1cl4, saw in the fnli OF the Colossus
s'only the misfortunes of a country which the Re
public had taught me to adore" The present
Emperor is certainly indebted somewhat TO Beran-
for the prestige of the family name to which he
90 a-eely indebted for his political advancement;
IT, .tm;>re than doubtful whether he owes the
but l. l. +i2de. For the rest, Beranger was no
poet any g"H, "atriot and true iberal-a liberal
pohtcah. r, rts-a friend Of the people, OF
whom be was one by bn.- .er,onsf INDEPENDENCE
and above all, jealous of his anr noI;tcai firm
he was not jealous partisan On re b;s country
The Republic had taught him to ado. -ad conntrv
and he would gladly have seen that ADO :, ,nublic
ai~sxs Republic: but he considered the h, u"nJ
Of Ic4s a premature experiment, and express
his fears 10 that effect at the time of its declaration
five except the vOluminOus works OF N0ltaire,
tba writings of no author offer SO true and complete
a literary index of French character, as those u
Berapger. The Wit, gayety, cheerful pracucai
PHILOSOPHY of life enthusiastic love OF glory, tne
retnlant restless spirit of opposition to government
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g;on caIantry, thnly vailed and unyaled luorcity-
MI are there polished and sparkling in one little
Sneskinp of French character, let me introduce
here an instance Of the charity which MAINTAIN is
a national trat of the people. 1t is proVeroiany
stated that English and American " Corporations
Isve no souls" Our Railway Companies smash up
Measure or business seeking traytle by the dozen
Without the movement OF bowel lhere Is
netting tender about them, except what Is attached
IN the engine, which, so tar as the anecuons are
concerned is rOL ct prGtered nh,t. here I'D rance,
ON the contrary, the administration oil the oriesns
Railway Company observing that some oil us
,mploy were suffering under the high temperature
Of these hot July days, has ordered that ionic
" and refreshing beverage, composed OF Gomez,
"bIandy and sugar in part land OF water IN nine
"parts. shall be mixed and put at the tree disPosl-
ton Of the workmen in its employ" EVERYBODY
who knows what deal Of benefit, IN the way vi
pleasant moral emotion, as well as physical refresh
mept. French ourrier, with his yivacious tenn
pera,nent and nervous susceptibility, must derive
from even so thin bibulent as this, will recog'
nize in the action of the Orleans Railway Company
work Of real bene6cence az much to the credit Of
the Director as though they had voted d"triou-
ton of tracts to their workmen.
Apropos Of drinks, and what Was saying, lew
letters sgo, Of the growth In France OF knowledge
and taste for Shakespeare. LIVES amused to zee,