the same. custom warrants. The purveyors of milk plead that they | senate. Under pretext of mending his health, put no more water in their pails than the universal he repaired to his own province, in order to deliver there speeches and replies to addresses, which In the popular drama of Napoleon and Joseph- might help him as a candidate for the office of ine, four acts are made up by her supplications president. There remained to be settled various against a divorce, and his extreme distress, tender principles and provisions of the constitution, of sensibility, and reluctant hearing of his less scru- the utmost importance. It was not officially anpulous retinue of politicians. He is admirably nounced that the affirmative final vote on the conmimicked by the actor who personates him, institution was to be signalized by a discharge of every detail. cannon. The subject was not at all in the minds A few weeks ago, Lamartine, complaining to a of the world out of the Assembly. My family French acquaintance of mine, of an importunate and myself, like most of the inhabitants at home visitor, said, "He is of transatlantic stupidity." or abroad, were startled by the roar, and imagined This should be known to transatlantic gentlemen an insurrection in some quarter. Under the same who write him adulatory letters of which they fear, the boulevards soon became crowded with inforget the postage. Formerly, the American quirers. The next day, a few of the journalists consul was heavily taxed for such addresses to the affirmed that the silence of the government was members of the royal family. intentional; a scheme to ascertain whether the This morning (14th Nov.) I counted at one faubourgs were disposed to break out anew by newspaper stall, thirteen new penny journals; the sympathy with a supposed commotion. In fact, title of one is the Viper's Tongue, and, doubtless, the Moniteur informed us that a number of instithe venom of the contents suits the title. The gators tried in vain to excite the faubourgs by the first pages of the article of the Edinburgh Review tale that the military authorities were firing on a on Walpole's Letters to the Countess of Ossory socialist banquet; most of them were arrested. It treat of the distinction due to men of letters, is affirmed in the anarchical and other malcontent and of the position and power of journalists—a journals that, at the grand ceremonial of the provery interesting theme; the article comprises much mulgation of the constitution on Sunday last, the entertainment. If journalists could but regard laboring classes absented themselves, and that the themselves as refined gentlemen and true patriots in concourse, besides the official and military, was the largest sense, and write accordingly, they would not large. This is untrue. I was in the middle finally-even in Great Britain-attain social rank of the Place de Concorde, between 10 and 11, and with the highest classes. The very cheap news-even then the throng was immense. Notwithpaper press, and the frequent exciting elections, standing the extreme inclemency of the weather, do not favor this advancement. The disquisitions the troops and the national guards appeared in full of the Edinburgh Review on the State of Europe, numbers and equipment before nine o'clock. From though worthy to be read, are inferior to those of that hour until four o'clock, we saw, under us, the London Quarterly. It was Gibbon, I think, from our windows on the Rue de Rivoli, an unrewho remarked "The romance of Tom Jones, mitting stream of passengers to the magnificent that exquisite picture of human manners, will out-show; one half at least consisted of the working live the palace of the escurial, and the imperial men. I remarked several times to the persons eagle of the house of Austria." As" times go,' near me that, since March, such a multitude of the fulfilment of this prediction seems much nearer blouses had not been witnessed on any one day in than he could have imagined it to be. The house the streets, for a peaceable purpose. of Austria, however, is proverbially lucky; its military strength is scarcely diminished. The two most potent of the new anarchical journals are the Peuple, by Proudhon, who stands at the head of the fanatical visionaries and disorganizers; the price is five dollars per annum; the other is entitled the Democratic and Social Revolution, and issues from a numerous association who have specially undertaken propagandism; the subscription is three dollars. THE CHIEF OF THE HUNGARIANS. KOSSUTH, by extolling the generous feelings of his countrymen, knew better than any other person how to quicken their resolves and make them pronounce this dreaded word of civil wars, Alea jacta est. Kossuth reached slowly the reputation of eloquence and energy which even his enemies allowed A congress of the "Democratic Press" has toilsome; he was a poor lawyer twelve years ago, him to possess. His first years of public life were just terminated its session in this capital. Fifty occupied by some deputies to execute the business journals were represented. They solemnly pro- confided to them by the committees, and carrying test against "the federalist and counter revolution- on the correspondence that such business rendered ary tendencies" of the congress of the departmental necessary. Some magnates, who appreciated his press, and adhere to the nomination of Ledru-intelligence and activity, availed themselves of those Rollin. Some of the organs of the moderate advantages in order to establish a journal of the sitting of the diet. At this period, all the publicity of the party twit M. Lamartine with having abandoned business of the diet was confined to some bulletins the discussion of the constitution in the Assembly after his two ambitious harangues, one of which gave the finishing blow to the vital project of a of ten lines which appeared in the censured journals and contained an abstract of its labors. Kos suth gladly undertook this affair. He organized a service of young writers or scribes des comitats, and thus rendered an exact and complete account of the sittings. The Austrian government caused this journal to be seized. The mode of printing by lithography, said he, as well as the produce of the press, was brought under the subjection of the law of censure. Kossuth and his patrons were not discouraged; they increased the number of writers and transcribers, and the journal continued to appear in manuscript. After the session, Kossuth did not suspend his journal; in lieu of the speeches of the diet, he published the debates of the committees. In those private meetings and in those provincial diets, less controlled by public authority, the most vehement speeches were delivered; they fearlessly urged separation from Austria, and breathed of a republic. Kossuth was arrested and imprisoned for the publication of one of those speeches. Two or three years passed away, the authorities not daring to bring him to trial. He recovered his liberty he only sought to take advantage of the name and sanction of the emperor, in order to raise some troops and levy the contributions in his power, ready for all events, even war against Austria. He betrayed even his inward thought, when some patriots, not in his secrets, loudly demanded the recall of the Hungarian regiments, which were then stationed in Lombardy. "But reflect then," cried Kossuth, "that you will rather recall Croats than Magyars. Is that what you wish?" 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He was in the second chamber considered in the first rank among the chiefs of opposition. In consequence of his slow elevation he was not worn out like Synéchény, like Bathiany, like Deak himself, when the revolution of March broke out. He boldly seized the staff of power, and he displayed then, besides an eloquence of which his countrymen speak with admiration, an energy and activity which would doubtless merit to have sooner met a better employment. Kossuth did not resemble the Hungarian liberals, THIS is a very important book. It was printed always animated by chivalrous sentiments, and a at the government press, Honolulu, and will advanlittle aristocratic, as we have been accustomed to tageously compare with books printed here. 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It was he who stopped plied social and political relations which are about the liberal movement of Hungary, in order to ac- Mr. Jarves has had great advantages of position, to grow up between us and these new brethren. complish a revolutionary and a domineering one. Its he who, in order to realize the projects of uni- and seems to have been a diligent and impartial exversal quality, more chimerical in Hungary than aminer. Some early prejudices he had to relinanywhere else, did not fear to overturn all the polit- quish. We are almost ashamed to confess the ical and social state of his country. We know this same to have been our own case. race of men, and we do not require any long expo-wanted faith. But they were seen of their Father said to have been done by the missionaries, that we sition to understand them. Those desires of vengeance, inspired perhaps, but not justified, by the in heaven, and have their reward. We write with prosecutions and condemnations which he under-affectionate and reverential recollection of our friend, went, are concealed in the heart of Kossuth, by a the Rev. Hiram Bingham. warm and exclusive patriotism, leaving nothing to authorize a suspicion of sincerity. In this latter respect, at least, he represents the qualities and the defects of Magyarism, and he, doubtless, draws hence a part of the wonderful ascendant which he exercises at this moment over his countrymen. Kossuth was firmly resolved at this period to break with the Austrian government; his character, not less than the march of events, pushed him to this end. In speaking of regiments to send into Italy, So much was The Clergyman's Widow, The Officer's Widow, THE trials and endurance of piety are well illustrated in these instructive stories, and many an admirable lesson may be learned by persons similarly tried. 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