New-York tribune., 1885-01-15
MP sALA'S SECOND LECTURE.
WARS REVOLUTIONS AND TUMULTs.


.o,us NAPOLEON AND THE REVOLUTION Of 4o-A
VISIT TO MEXICO.
coorge Auglstus Sala dispensed with an in
. .s,,o, to the audience which assembled to hear his
oord lecture at Chickering Hall last night Warned
.sars by what Chauncey NJ. Depew had told himFhat
-, oonntrg would longer tolerate ALTERATION OF any
"a bc entitled his lecture "wars, Revolutions
"a Tumults" with promise OF Incidental
10 ilustrious soldiers and statesmen whom ho
IN IN the course Of forty years Of Sightseeing and
.sno scenes He his hearers brilliant sketches OF
go of the wars and revolutions and. to use his own
-. a. scr,mmages" which he had looked upon, ana
fs. the mixtures strongly drawn hkenesses OF some
- distinguished people he had met &c Ihaye been'
" Ia "craGed in sedition, rocked In rev.
no '.,,an and weaned in wars" He described
,ev the revolution Of 1S4S III france
nd some of the characters who figured IN IT,
u, brt a youth he first met Louis Napoleon at the
,roes NJ the Honorable Mrs. Norton. in London lie
~. said Mr. saa "a young. understood little man,
,,h tavny mustache and eyes so leharSic IN expires
go, that IL seemed If he was never more than
half awake He large eagle made OF golu
nd diamonds. Although barely thirty years OF age
No s then rather notorious than famous as te nero Oh
oa,ades at strasburg and Boulognc, as having visited
h United states and left it rather in hurry as having
eored In London as a dandy and roue gamester ana
oia, oonstoble He was then in Strengthened crcum
.a,oos an that when he went over 10 Franco on the
Declaraon of the French Republic to see what might
turn Nh for him there he had to borrow money from one
Charles Duke Brunswick But for that assistance We
sboud nrobaby have had no second empire at ALL He
went hack to England then to France again. and by amt
soop,nual plotting and scheming and seduous revival
~ tho Napoeonic legend he gained ascendancy over the
French people He worked the army by feedng IL Oh
cbamragne and sausages and Napoleonc ideas In ls5l
occurred detat which has DeeD Us
burglary. But IL was not wholly unexpected
LOUIS NAPOLEON IN PARIS.
was then engaged in bringing ont pantomlme at
the Princess's Theatre. London. One Saturday hght
the 1st of December 1851. when there happened 10 DE
no rehearsal 1 took dinner with my friend,
Dickens at his over the oihco oi
his Household Words. Charming dinners those were
One used 70 meet at the table many delightful people
Dickens said after dinner, Can you rsNe lVua vi
pantoniIne to the management OF your oroheI anu 10
over 10 Paris | think something is going 10
happen there. Things look ugly, wlsn & IRON ON
Paris and arrived Just the nick of time For three
days the cracking OF the musketry anu Ie % , nv
cannon continued one day yenured out on onG o 'h m
most fashionable bOuevards Around every cITeie vi
earth surrounding young Tree o tnfit % bs ~ sSre saw
soldiers smrched with powder, dirty poOu-th anu
SoTse6acR Looked at him AMI binkel, very likely as
sometime do being short sighted Probably he mis-
pistol ~ and presented it at my head
fnnF can ee the cold stce of that pistol yet won't
saw that ran away but Immediately executed "a hash
movement Cannon balls and shells fell In the court
yard of the hotel where staying One can get ac
casomed TO cannon balls. for shells have deep
the hotel We descended into the cellar with box OF
cigars and some unimpeaehable cognac and sang Bun
Britannia but found the noise OF bursting shells was
not conducive to indulgence in patriotic harmony
Some people that Louis Napoleon was hGt .t nIa!e
and bravest Of men He rode through the
snsad sTesis Of his stan When at every window there might
have been assassin, with the same lmpefInroSDie
awake that had first noticed / saw him when young
man. in the zenith Of his power, ana asaln % aiaer ms
downfall but always there was the same semi i'so'h"n
bulent-lethargic expression
IN MEXICO AND SPAIN.
Mr.. saa briefly referred TO his visit to this country
while the Civil War in progress. Then continuing
he said
"Inext went to Mexico There were railways in
Mexico in those days and the that being con-
sructed at that interrupted by very vianous
band of brigands killing many OF the workmen. one
American gentleman boasted of having polished , OF
thirty-seveR of them with his revolver We
went through numbers OF towns, representing
Old Spain the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries;
xmercans M are now Well acquainted With Mexico, the
two countries are bound together III h way 9 S
puzzled TO know where II came from. io Mehco
he ae & OF oy peas and over again Mr. Pres
colts wonderful book 1t arises now before me as vision
and the long, long deserts where nothlrg grows
but cactus aud prcky pears and the great columns OF
dust collected In the crannies and cayeIns OF the o
everything grOws-cotton coffee cinnamon mulberry
have heard something about the alleged taciturnty
of your iusrious soldier, Ulysses s. Grant Loud ap
plausel Well, solemnly assure you that heard
him after dinner England with an exMember OF Far
lament for Brighton speaking for thirty minutes on the
CITY of Mexico and giving the most rd and picturesque
account of IL which had heard. Applause 80
q al then went to Algeria, where witnessed the IN
umpha progress OF the armies OF France. Next was
over the field Of Waterloo. through Holland and Ham
burg Berlin intending TO winter in ST. Petersburg
In Berlin there came to me telegram saying: There
ia revolution in SPAIN e. ee 1na has enO1Sn oSe
horse revolution for when got TO
Madrid twas sauelched. South and afterward
saw Alphonso entry into Madrid, while in another part
of the country there going on Carst war In one
place where meet the King at breakfast, we
cleaned our faces with candles-a suggestion OF Mr.
Galenga of The London Times Between Barcelona ana
Madrid the train attacked by Carlists Whose King
Il have no King: Victoria is my Queen,
and am satisfied with her. They levied blacknall Ia
proportion the class OF carriages the yOyagers Occ-
pied The fusilade that going on when That tram
was stopped made since always thankful that God
projected my e he had In so many wars In so
many different countries and under SO many
perilOus circumstances. There was fenOw-
traveller, manufacturer OF BaIcelOna,
whose only trouble the occasion was that he was
going killed in the prime OF life and that, too,
without getting his breakfast. During the war with
hope he has many adnirers In
this He d heroic, smple-mindod, patriotic
man. a twin brother In his way, of Chinese Gordon"
then referred To the freedom OF Venice ana the
Franco sian war, and accounts OF his acquan
tance with Sir Garnet wOlseey and Mr.. Gladstone.