The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1864-10-24
SICK sOVEREIGNs.

The Boston Bulletin says it Is melancholy
crcum stance that great persons should DO SUD
iect to all those indexes to mortality that aio 80 .
common in their yisiiations to little people. EN-
perors and kings being made OF clay, ana cl"y
being liable to all sorts of damage, II ioioWS tn"
not even palaces can keep out disease-lnd
disease is often the herald Of death. In the
articles of disease and death, therefore, we all
| stand upon a common footing and thaS IS pretty
| much the only kind Of equality that is known
| among men, OF that is ever likely to be known
among them, all the talk about equality that IS so
| common at election times being but 60sh, ana
| very ridicu ous boSh TOO. Men may DC Jheoretl-
alIv enniYI before the law, but practice is quGe |
another thing. Ii any ono should think that, prlc-
| tically the law is an equality -recOghihnlS Ihug,
| we advise him TO Ego 10 law II mat sha not |
| rure him Of an extraordinary dclusion we thlnE
it would he well for him to put his affairs III oruer
as speedily as pOssbo,'tor ne must DC III "n IA
But while we are ali subjects of King Death,
| who is not constitutional sovereign, OuJ Jha
5 | most absolute OF mouarehs and, WINE kngs @ wy
inst as liable to suer from sickness rs theW sun sun
ects il is undeniable that the difference Is very
, 4 great when you consider the consequences OF
Il IA of sickness We everyday people iall Ill, and
\ n iS matter of no moment to anybody out of
r. our own limited circle, saving and excepting inc
u | doctor and sexton, who look at tne thihS rom
be business point Of view, as 1t is thelr rgnt anu
| duty 10 look at il. But let monarch or lresl-
| dent become seriously indisposed, ana halt sue
4 WOrld-perhaps the whole OF It's ueepy hIeI
IN ested, and even profoundly agitaed. Il man or
", | woman, whom not one person IN ton thousthu
lu has ever seen, cant have fever or the Sou'
g. | Eithout millions being made TO suffer IN sym
rd | patby with him or her; and not even houry
nu bunGtips suffice satisfy the demand Tor lntelli-
lel aence 1t is not "Aunkeyiain, as 1t IS Called maj
ne Is the cause of this, bur sense OF interest me
oI soverejgps of really important nations are, anc
.no ever must be, men who repiesonI cert#n p'lhcl
! pies, and VINO cannot therefore, ial' III without
80 "a | great interests being affected.
hbS | There il French acquaintance, Emperor
'hu 'n | Napoleon, for example. Not iiHle has beer
M said, for fortnight past, OF an attack nndel
@ tue which he has suffered but Of the nature aud eN
0h tent OF which no seems to be able 10 Obtain
an 4 anything like accurate knowledge. lie ha
al az | rheumatism, he has rheumatic gout, he ha
@ @en sciatica his hips and oins out of sorts, AM
i iau | in great pain; he has this or that, Or tOhe
Ih reminder of his mortality, by way OF warnin
~ that the sands in the glass of mis- existence ~
= As fast running out and that his big life like on
- - | little lives, must soon he rounded with sleel
ti The effect sensational as the imperial gentle
nf I.a man does not well, while illness wear
,ars hard uron him. II is felt that he could nl
lasO leave this noisy world fO- the Silent Land witt
me- out causing It TO become more noisy tnan eve
t one, lie made the Government that France no
",tSt w. knows-hc Is the French Government; and u
er to common conviction is, that when he shall IA
6gtg into the grave, the imperial monarchy VIII u
ny ny | with him. The hopes of his family would
VIZ WIZ | buried with him. When he shall exchange q
oI'i- purple robe for the wooden surtout appoints
for all living France is expected to change b
Government; but for what other form OF COVER
ment, who shall say
rived Is She % become a kingdom or aTcpublic II
mail kingdom, will II be the kingdom OF France,
4 last the kingdom of the French viii she have t
enty- white Bourbon for king, who calls himself q
army Comte de Chambord, OF the trt-colOred Bour0o
great who is Comte de Paris Would the restoratiC
three 20 back $780, would il stop short 1T lSi
latta- II she should become a republic, would it be
afely blue republic or red one I These be question
lubt- and it is because they fairly be asked tn
the Emperor's life is so valuable one to otht
mis- as well as to himself. All branches of the Fren
LIE opposition are toerably well united, a
they make "a tOleraby strong tree. Red, viii
and blue coaesce in politics almost as comtortat
ton" 40 DO fHE SV 5 tho yra,Id fall enaTt The temn
rInE that would certainly rise would uproot the II
eI eIhiI and scatter the branches. We may, should
N'OS' Emperor's illness take very Ill turn look
, for great news from France ere many monl
Ieek- shall be added to the sum of departed time.