Smyrna times., 1858-01-28
The Harvest of Death.

If testimony were needed that Death is no
respecter of persens, we certainly have it, says
the New York Express, in the impressive re-
cord of mortality which constitute the leading
feature of the news by the British steamer
The same journals that tell of the appalling de-
struction of human life by the earthquake at
Naples, of thousands of unfortunate beings
whom the great world knows nothing of, except
that they lived and died d,-announce the death
of the heroic British General Havelock, IN In
dia,-of Reschid Pacha, the Grand Vizier Of
Turkey,-of the veteran Austrian Marshal
Rade,sky, at Vienna, and of that once imperial
queen Of the modern stage, Mademoisel!e Ra-
chel Thus do men march on TO the grave, to
reach there at last, that commsn level, where
all earthly distractions and titles, and honors,
and riches count nothing
The death of HaveIock has plunged all Eng
land in sorrow,--and we can well afford to say.
that our mother country never sorrowed Tor
nober or drawer man. The news came to
them in the midst ct the most active prepara-
tons for great National jubilee, in honor of
the approaching nuptiaIs of the Princess Royal;
and the effect upon the public miud,>w judge
BY the tone of the journals, was that of sud
dcn. stunning blOw,--or as il some ghost had
s,alked into ma rrage feast, to chill the revel,
ers at the board. The previous advices from
India said nothing of indispostion, and his
death, therefore, was wholly unlocked for lie
did not die on the battle feld-but in his tent,
avic.im to dysentery,-the result, no doubt, Gi
the exposure aud incessant anxiety lnseparably
Incident to the arduous nature OF the brilliant
operations at Cawnpore, Alahabad and Luck
now, Of all of which he was the master spirit
Gen IIavelock was a good man, as wei as
great General, and he died before he had an op
portunity to know how much his country anC
his sovereign thought of him. 1t was thu
Queens determination to raise him to the peer
age; and on hearing of his death, her Majesty
at once expressed her intention to take hi
family under her especial protection. Parlia
ment has already declared it's wish to provid
for the eldest son by making the pension Q
fI,OuO year, proposed for his father. inherta
BILE by him; and it is given out in the Cour
Journal, that apartments in Hampton CouI
Palace will, as soon as possible, be granted {
Lady IIavelock and her daughters, togethe
with a pension Of $500 year. All this
right. 1t is graceful act on the part of tn
Crown the Crown thus, it is certain, re
spends to tile unanimous and heartfelt wishes {
the British people.
Marshal Radetsky was a mau Of another de
scriotion. Austria will miss him in her mil
iary establishment, but we doubt whether man
tears will be shed for him in italy, in Switze
land, or in Hungary, upon all of which, at son
time or other, in the course of his military e
periences, he has laid heavy hand. His a
tive military career, beginning as far back
the memorable siege of Belgrade, and comiI
down as late as the suppression of the rece
insurrection at Milan,--takes in a period Of
years. and brings us retrospectlvely 10 conta
agaia with battles the history OF which
average young men Of this age must have re
over when they were yet boys.-Novi, N
renge, Ausierlitz. Aspern, and Leipslc. The
are many Italian and Hungarian exiles, I
journing among us here, at any rate, who "
be likely to receive the announcement OF
death without say of those sorrowful emotiC
with which The decease of Hagelock has ca
ed forth. smeng all classes of men. in Gr'
Britain. s.a.
Reschid Pacha.-the next on the death list
was an honorable specsaea Of a Turkish pc
<ician.--and if we have read his history arig
he was both 10 his private and public relatiC
a much honester man than politicians 4
prime ministers generally are If there is
thing else for which his memory should be
vered,l the fact that he kept only one W
when he .might have had harem, unquesti
ably recommends itself TO the consideration
his biogrsphers. The world cannot afford
lose many such Turks in these days. when
lygspy apd eoucubbhlnoge are are bold enough