The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CABRERA.—This remarkable partisan may still be called Philippe. It was known to, and felt by Europe, that the a young man ; he is not more than thirty-nine years old. old general had too much influence at court, that all reIn appearance, Cabrera is about the middle stature, ra- volutionary agents over the whole world looked up to they slight, and not ungracefully formed. To a stranger, him for advice and aid, that he was peculiarly obnoxious his countenance is not indicative of the ferocity which has to all foreign courts, and that his removal from so impormade him so remarkable even amongst the sanguinary tent a post as thattf commander-in-chief of all the mill. leaders of the Carlist bands ; and his demeanour, when tia of France, was earnestly desired. His resignation, not under the influence of intense excitement, is mild and then. was an immense good; and much as the king loved gentle. Even when affected by some overwhelming feel- him as a man and a friend, his retirement from office was ing, his external manner betrays little of the tempest which a boon which none could estimate better than the king rages within : it is not boisterous nor loud, but rather himself. But although the loss of Lafayette was a posithat of deep, calm, concentrated, yet deadly determine- tive good, the event necessarily led to increased hostility tion. On one occasion only it is recorded that this habi- to the government of the king on the part of the men of tual calmness completely abandoned him. This monster, the movement faction ; and Lafayette, Dupont de l'Eure, who ;s not redeemed by another virtue, wept like an in- Lamarque, Lameth, and Audry de Puyraveau, openly font snatched from the bosom when the tiding's of his headed the malcontents. That fact in itself led the popumother's death reached him. He loved her much; and lace to rebel. They attacked the church of St. Germain her murder turned to gall whatever little of earthly feel- l'Auxerrois, and nearly destroyed it; sacked the arching made his heart still human. He shut himself up in bishop's palace ; insulted the ministers of religion ; and, his apartment during two days, without admitting an in- at length, the voice of Guizot was heard at the tribune dividual, with the exception of one favoured servant, are- denouncing the Lafayette ministry for its mischievous and lative it is said, to witness the agony of grief to which he ruinous policy. Now began that series of eineutes, inabandoned himself, and which almost deprived him of surrections, conspiracies, and plots against the king, the consciousness. How bitterly he avenged his ill-fated pa- royal family, and the government, which lasted during rent need not be told.—Mirror. many years, but which Louis Philippe has, apparently,  Colonel Sutcliffe, "  retired governor of Juan Fer has recently  published-a volume  giving an  account of that island from its discovery by Don -Juan Fernandez (after whom it was named), in 1572 ; and to this volume he gives the title of Crusoniana, from the fact that it was the well-known abode of Alexander Selkirk on this island, which furnished De Foe with the  .enerally known that there was previ to Alexander Selkirk a  solitary tenant  island, and one, too, whose sojourn there, as recorded bv Dampier and Ringrosse, must have been known to De Foe, as will be seen from the following extract from Colonel Sutcliffe's book, in which we trace the original of the story of Man Friday, and his discovery of his father in Robinson Crusoe  " At the moment of their [a crew of Buccaneers] hurried escape [from Juan Fernandez], one of their crew, a Mosquito Indian, named William, happened to be in the woods hunting goats ; so that the ship was  under sail before he got back to the bay. Poor Will had only the clothes on his back, a knife, a gun, a small horn of powder, and a few shot. His situation became still more critical when the Spaniards entered the bay, took up the anchors and cables, and, having caught sight of him, made a diligent search ; but he eluded their rsuit, and remained the sole human occupant of the  3rised him