The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-09-19

patient public; and we are all more or less sell
fish In the great race OF life. The sympathy for
the poor sick Turk meant only the necessity for
an open route 10 India, and Italy Tree from Rome
TO the Adriaiic was summed up u the acquist-
tion of Nice and savoy. Have we no national
faults? or do we stand so pure and white-handed
in the family OF natione that we are beyond the
need of chaTityY ......
The traditional idea of the Enslishman, with
his round red face, p0rtly 6gure, and top boots
has passed away: he now appears in tweed suit
with the bob.aed coat aud capacious pockets,
shoes rather large, perhaps, and laced ever SO
far up his ankles and-the umbrella. He does
not find everything in America just as 1t was at
ZONE, you know" but consider his provoca-
tisns-the beer is bad; the mutton chops not
cooked as they were at "Hevans'I servants
don't touch their caps or spring out oil his way,
or brush his clothes or polish his boots to his
fancy; there are no hanson cabs nor cider
cellars. Besides, vast number OF annoyances
constantly beset him. so that his poor human
nature Will be overtasked sometimes and the
rutfes gather about his usually placid brow.
state 1t as a TACT in natural history-an
established fact-that the EDgshman before
breakfast IS in an abnormal condition, aud is
not resi- onsble for his thoughts, impressions or
actions; but consider him at the clo,e OF we'll
spent day: he has dined- great censummation
II the meal has been accordant with his taste,
for he then becomes sublimed, glorided-his
heart at peace with all mankind, except the
Fenians; child might speak to him, and
genial influence perYades his atmosphere, like
oil upon troubled waters.
From the Monthly Gossip we take the fol-
lowlng:-
1.-THE extent of Thacke eray's reading was not
so wide as his admirers believe. His acquaint-
auce with the reigns Of Queen Anue and her
immediate successors, in which 1t is thought he
had especially we'll informed himself, was not
IL seems, very extensive in its range. Every
| body familiar with the period will observe the
detective and incomplete representation of the
| times made by the author in the novels he pro-
duced; bat 1t Is more manifest in his sketches OF
Swift and steele. When Thackeray first gave
his lectures on the English Humorists most of
| whom, by-the-by, were Irshmen-he omitted
in his notice of Swift all sllusion to SWifts mas
| terpiece, Gullver.'
I'm his notice of Steele there was, and
| is an omission even more noteworthy. Steele,
like Thsckeray, was CharterHouse boy, and
| 1t might have been thought that while record
ing his "reminiscences of the school, he would,
in his dissertation on fogging, have alluded to
| But the existence OF the paper was entirely
unknown 10 him. Shortly after the appearance
Of the 'Humorists,' a friend of ours, a we'll
known author, dining with Thackeray, re-
novelist frankly avowed his ignorance, and
| exclaimed: BY Jove You don't mean TO say
that Steele has written on the subject 1 would
have given ffty pounds he added, to have
known it at the time.' "
1.-The question of the identity of the Dauphin
and the late Rev. MIR. Williams having come
again before the public, the following important
piece of evidence, communicated at our request
| by DR.. Samuel Jackson, formerly of Northum-
berland and now Of Philadelphia, will be inter-
| estng:-
"Mr. Editor-John Vaughan was one Of the
| best citizens of Philadelphia. No stranger of
eminence came to this city without wishing an
introduction to him. SO high was his standing
that he was a particular friend and frequent
| correspondent of the great DR.. Priestley. His
brother, Benjamin Vaughan, had been men,
Der of the English Parliament, and Lord Shell.
He was an English radical, favorable to the
| French Revolution, and intimate with some
| Of its leaders. Johns executor (the late
Jacob Snder, Jr.) showed me- about 1885, q
| letter from Benjamin to John, dated Basle in
Switzerland, July, 1875, which ran principally
on French politics and the movements OF the
| French armies. The last paragraph Is this: -
| The little Capet is to be exchanged here iu
about ten days or a fortnight Little Capet
was the common designation of Louis the Sc
| venteenth.
was exchanged at Huningue, only toco miles from
| letter was genuine could not doubt, for it was
one of many with which / compared it.
"'lt was very easy tossend the Dauphin from
Basle down the river to Coblentz where Louis
the Eighteenth was then holding his court, and
from there 1t was equally easy to send him down
the same river to Rotterdam, whence there
would be no difficulty in shipping him to Ame-
RIGA. l am forced to believe that the little in
sane boy in shorts, seen by Mrs. Blandusia or
| Blandna Dudley in Albany that autumn, was
! the Dauphin. (see Lost Prince p. 465.Cn s.
'The above seems to supply the one missing
| link wanting inthe chain of evidence adduced
by Mr.. Hanson IN support of Mr.. Williams
claim"