Mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado Co., Cal.) 1854-1860, 1859-08-06

ual allegiance, the President is Of opinion that
IL subject Of Prussia, lying under legal OBJ.
legation in that country to perform q certain
amount Of military duty, leaves his native
land, and, without performing that duty or
obtaining the prescribed certificate of emf
gratiOn,' comes to the United States and is
naturalized, and afterwards, for any purpose
whatever, goes back to Prussia, II is not com.
petent for the United States to protect him
from the operation Of the Prussian law. The
cASe may DO one Of great hardship, especially
if the omission to procure the certificate arose
from inadvertencc or ignorance; but this fact,
though a just ground Of sympathy, does not
alter the case as one Of international law"
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TnE GnEAr ORATORS. What man, says
WalpOle, Fox is After his long and cx-
hausting speech on Hastings trial, he vas seen
handing ladies into their coaches, with oil the
gaicty and prattlc Of an idle gAilAnti''
Burke's melodramatic trick Was complete
failure, when be flung thc dngge. on the -OOr
of the House o? COL4mOns, and produced
nothing but smothercd laugh, and Joke
from ChCridcn: 1.-THE gentleman has brought
us the knife, but where is the EorkT"
When Lord E-Skinc nadc his debut at the
har, his agitation almost ovcrcamc him, end
he wasSju3t going to sit down. "At that
moment" said he, " I ;hoIght fe.t my chill.
drcn tugging at my gown, and tho idea reused
Tne to an e=ertiOn Of which did not think
myself capable"
Lord DrOugham, speaking OF the Galary at
tuched to rumored appointment 70 new
judgcShip, said It WIS all moonsh;nc. Lynd-
hurst, in dry aud wRggiSh way remarked,
May It be so, my Lord larry; but have q
strong notion that, though it be, you would
like to see the fret quarter Of IT,"
Pit and Fox were listened to with profound
respect, and In silence broken only by Occa.
SionAl cheers, but from the moment of Sheri.
dams rising, there was an expectation ol
pleasure, which to his last days, vas seldom
disappointed. A low murrnur of eagerness
ran round the house; every word wes watch
ed for, and his pleasantly set the whole as
scmblage in q rOar.
Canning said of Grattan's eloquence, that
for tho last two years, his public exhibitions
were complete failure, and that you saw al
! the mechanism Of his oratory without its life
It was like lifting the flap Of q barrel.organ
and seeing tho wheels; yoH SAW the skeleton
Of his sentences without the lcsA on tLcm
and were induced to think that what you haG
considered f'asheS, were merely primin3s KEEP
ready for the occasion.
Mr.. Burke, on one occasion, had just riser
in tho House Of Commons, with some papers
in his hand, on the subject Of which he in
tended to make motion, when arough.hcwr
member, who had no car for tho charms o
eloquenCe, rudely started up and said, 4" Mr.
Speaker, hope the honorable gentleman doe
not mean to read that large bundle Of papers
and to bore US with long speech into th'
bargain" Mr.. b. was so swollen with rag
as to DO incapable Of utterance, and absolutely
ran out Of the house. On this occasion Georg
Selwyn remarked that it was the only tim
he ever saw the fable realized-0 lion put t
fight by the brGying Of an Gss.