The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-08-15

symposiums win the Pope; or perhaps they only |
looked to be provided with feather beds, curtained
apartments, fair damsels to wait upon them viands
OF the daintiest, lachryma christi of the choicest
vintage, silver forks and finger glasses, nap
kins, and table linen to match. But whether
their expectations took higher or lower range
they were equally disappointed. The officers were
young and inexperienced, and among the rank and
file there WIS "nothing but confusion, tossication
and dismay." The malcontents took measures
10 obtain their discharge from the service and six
teen of them succeeded in accomplishing their de-
sire. At Civta Vecchia, where they were to en-
bark for home they met IA batch of men, who
in Ireland, had belonged to the Constabulary; but
Who full of enthusiasm and zeal, had thrown up
their appointments and were then en- route for
Rome. Two or three days later, this whole body
of Conslabulary were back in Civ!a Vecchia dis
gusted with their officers, and eager only to get
back to Ireland without moments delay" A
lew pieces OF coin were doled out to them on the
quay at Civita Vecchia to enable them to pur-
chase food while on the voyage from that port to
Marseilles; but the captain of the steamer-"a
rampant Frenchman'-gave orders that neither
bread, meat nor vegetables should be sold to the
lrishmen; so for forty hours they were without
food or sustenance. AT Marseilles they were sent
supperless to lodge, for the night, on hard straw
pallets in what Mr.. O'BRIEN calls with delicious
na'oetf, ian empty French garrison" but which
he soon discovered to be tenanted with swarm
'of fierce and ferocous bugs which, after the man
''ner OF the tabled harpies, did all in their power
Ito make us supremacy miserable" With clears
''of desperation in their eyes, the exiles indie-
nantly demanded Of the French officer in whose
charge they had been placed, "Tf this was the way
1.-THE boosted Emperor of France was accustomed
ITO meet lrishmen?n They recalled to his remem-
brance the glorious exploits of the Irish Brigade at
Fontenoy, and babe him reflect how nobly the
honor of France was preserved, on that occasion,
'by the generous effuson of Irish blood.'' To all
of which the malignant Frenchman responded
with running fire of Sacre's and DiaJle's. and
finally wound up by intimating that if the remon-
strants did not hold their peace he should be obliged
to accommodate them with those decorative ad
Juncts which are vulgularly known as handouts
and letters. Either that threat, or the feroctv of
French bugs, or the determination evinced by the
French authorities to keep their unwelcome guests
at starvation point whilst they remained, and to
get rid OF them as soon AS possible, brought about
IN Marseilles street. one of those remarkable re-
WILSON'S of feeling which, if properly appreciated
by NAPOLEON III, may have the effect to deter
him from undertaking his rumored invasion of
England, and ought certainly to induce Lord
rALMERsToN to abandon all further thought
either of strengthening the Channel fleet, or
OF fortifying exposed points upon the coast.
Mr.. O'BREN, his fifteen companions and the
whole body Of that Irish Constabulary force who
went abroad to fight for the POPE; who gIoried
In the defeat of the British at the famous battle
OF Fontenoy, and who, smitten with Gallo-mania.
would have welcomed the appearance of a French
fleet Off the coast of Ireland were suddenly con-
verted into enthusiastically LOYAL defenders Of the
Protestant throne of ''that lustrious lady, Queen
VICTORIA" After abandoning our quarters to
the bugs, says Mr.. O'BRIEN, 1--WE laid down. de-
'Jected and exhausted on the pavement of the
street, bitterly bemoaning our hard fate, aad
LOUDLY approaching ourselves, and we one and
''all swore, that if the day should ever come
when the liberties of Great Britain might be
threatened by the armies of France, we would
come forward ourselves, and beseech our coun-
''trymen to come on ALSO and generously sacrifice
our lives in defence of the most glorious Consti-
tuition in the whole world" Whether the
recital of this alarmed the French officer
who was charged with seeing them safely out of
the country, or whether he only redoubled his
saerc's and diaJles, we have no means of know
ing. All we learn is, that the exiles were finally
put on the train for Paris, which they reached in
two nights and one day-the whole allowance of
food TO each man, during the journey, being
"a penny worth of dry bread and small bit of
''cheese." From Paris they were sent to Bou-
'logne, living on air and water by the way. A
benevolent Frenchman purchased some necessaries
for them when they were put on board the steam
er bound for London, and the narrative ends
with their Decentralization on English ground
The moral of this story was inculcated centuries
ago by venerable physician who figures in the
Arabian tales. That sage, but unfortunate coun-
seiiVi, "a"IvHtsiIea I"siI, fInPuIarSv nIug, as
| follows ''Never,' said he, 'begin anything of
| (Which you have not well considered the end -
Had Mr.. O BREN and his ill-starred companions
conformed to this injunction, he would have been
spared the trouble of drawing up q narrative of
his and their suferngs, and they might still have
been in the exercise of the ''brief authority
which is delegated TO the members of the Irish
| Constabulary force.