history might be very different from what Englishmen and Germans, bewildered by the melodramatic catastrophes of a few months, expect that it will be. the fiery workman of the great cities, and their submissiveness while it lasts acts like the stolid belief of Englishmen that what is is right, as a conservative force, a resisting medium which saves every movement from flying into infinite space. -- But the positive dangers of the situation. What of the hatred between the cities and the towns? It points to federation, a But the terrible external situation of system inimical, it may be, to the aggress- the country, a conquering army within its ive power of France, but not inimical to borders, a crushing debt, no Government, the full development of her internal life, no army, a possibility or more of total suband specially not to its development in jugation by another and a different race? that bright variety of forms which France It is all true, and it was all still truer of since the Revolution has so lacked. But Germany in 1810, and yet in 1815 the solFrance has no men? How many had she dier who is now Kaiser William entered during the reign of Louis XV.? This Paris in triumph. History does not repeat much at least is certain, that never at any itself, and the deliverance of France will period did men who can climb mount so not come as the deliverance of Germany fast, never was the people so ready to wel- came; but that it will come we may rest come any leaders. An Italian Jew, an assured, perhaps, and not improbably, Americanized Frenchman, a Pole, -no from German forbearance or enlightened matter, the last rag of hampering preju- self-interest; perhaps, and not improbably, dice has been discarded, and the tools are from a burst of disease among the conquerto the workmen, be he who he may. There ing host; perhaps, though improbably, is no loyalty to anybody? No, but there from the rise of one of those men whose is to ideas, be they the ideas of the Repub-function is to deliver nations. What is lic, of Parliamentary Government, or of the condition of France compared with the the Commune, such loyalty, so passionate, condition of Holland under Philip? We so inveterate, so nearly akin to a religion, attribute too much importance to the incithat the first difficulty of France is the dents of a few months, under-estimate too bitterness of her divisions, otherwise the grossly the resources which must exist in incurable loyalty of her people to their every nation of six-and-thirty millions, forconvictions. But these ideas are irrecon- get too completely in our prosperity how cilable? No more irreconcilable than the the wretched fight. We cannot foresee or ideas of Geneva and the ideas of Canton attempt to foresee the future; we have St. Gall, just so irreconcilable as to give to acknowledged without stint the signs of the policy of Federalism a hold. The ir- evil abroad in France: but we see no sign religion and the superstition of France? yet of the only evil, death, from which in Are neither of them indifferentism or this world there is for nations, as for indihypocrisy, and therefore neither of them viduals, no release. It is but a day since sources of weakness. The indifference or Prévost Paradol died because the only essubmissiveness of the peasantry? Is en-cape from Cæsar was in suicide, and the tirely superficial. These peasants become Cæsar is at Chislehurst an exile. tor Hunt," as he was then called - HATS by which we mean the conventional to have originated with Henry Hunt, or " Orastove-pipes have long been voted an arbitrary social infliction. A few bolder spirits have tried, by heroic example, to make head-gear of a more comfortable shape the proper thing to wear; but their success has only been partial. Yet, only a few years ago, no man claiming to be even respectable could make his appearance in the streets with anything on his head but the necessary hat; and as for white hats, now so common in the summer weather, they were an abomination in the land. A political significance attached also to the wearer of a white hat. The connection of white hats with Radicalism seems Handle your sticks and flourish your flags, SOME interesting information is given in the Levant Herald respecting the Imperial Turkish Gun Factories at Tophaneh. Great activity is being shown by the Grand Master of Artillery not only in the rapid accumulation of increased stores of arms, but in the permanent enlargement of the buildings, the acquisition of the newest and most powerful machinery, and the improvement and simplification of the several branches of manufacture; in fact, Tophaneh is fast becoming the Woolwich of the Bosphorus. Since September great changes have taken place in the buildings themselves. A long shop facing the Bosphorus has been built in order to afford room for the entire separation of machinery worked by hand from that driven by steam, and several other shops have been enlarged in order to give accommodation to an increased number of men and machines. The most notable improvement in this direction, however, is the construction of a new shop for the reception of the machinery for the manufacture of guns up to thirteen and fourteen inches in diameter. This vast erection, which will occupy the centre of the factories, will be the largest workshop in the world, and will measure 850 feet longabout half the length of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham-82 feet wide, and nearly 40 feet high. This noble building is fast approaching completion; the glazed roof is nearly finished, and the foundations for the heavy machinery which it is intended to contain are being laid as rapidly as is consistent with solidity on the solid rock, which in some places is conveniently found at a few inches below the surface. Several of the gigantic lathes and boring machines are already in position, and the rest are either waiting to be put up or are on their way from England. The carriage department has also been enlarged a change rendered necessary by the entire abandonment of wooden gun carriages and limbers, which are now manufactured entirely of wrought iron-a stronger, lighter, and more durable material for the purpose. The old Genoese, Venetian, Persian, and Russian guns which were clustered round the clock-towers are fast being melted up and converted into modern weapons. Some of these were really specimens of art, but economy is the order of the day, and they have therefore been condemned to the melting furnace. Preparations are being made for the manufacture of a batch of large fortress and siege guns upon a new model. The Snider being considered the most suitable arm for excitable soldiers like the Turks, who are liable to throw away their ammunition without taking deliberate aim when using a quick-firing piece, is preferred to the Martini-Henry, and the conversion of arms on the Snider system still continues. In a few more months it is expected that the stock of muzzle-loaders in store will be quite exhausted. Great improvements have been made in the copper-smelting process as carried on at Tohab. A The batch of five tons of unrefined copper was lately sent to England to be refined by the best Swansea methods, in order to compare the results obtained with those of Zeitoun-Bournow. specimens were submitted to several well-known copper smelters at Swansea and elsewhere, who gave it as their opinion that the unrefined metal was of such excellent quality and colour that if introduced into the English market it would fetch from £1 to £1 10s. per ton above the prices then ruling. The powder mills are actively engaged in making " pebble,' ," "bean," and "prismatic" powder on a large scale. Another kind of powder is also being made for guns of an intermediate size in the form of flat blocks half an inch long, quarter of an inch broad, and threesixteenths of an inch thick. Pall Mall Gazette. THE SAVAGES AND THE TELEGRAPH. A TRICK ON THE AURACANIAN INDIANS. It is not a little curious, says the Indipendiente of Chile, to know how the telegraph wires and posts have been preserved from injury by the Indians, otherwise the communication of the frontier forts with one another could not have been kept up. The following stratagem was hit upon and related by a traveller recently from the frontiers, who was asked how this was. He said when the posts were erected there were some forty or fifty Indian prisoners in the camp of the army. General Pinto, fearing they might destroy this important work of civilization, called them together, and brought in an electric battery: "Do you see this wire which is placed here?" "Yes, General." "Well, then, I have caused it to be placed there, so that you should not pass to the other side or touch it, because if you do, your hands will adhere to the wire." The Indians smiled with an incredulous look. The General called them one by one, and made them lay hold of the wires of a battery and then set it agoing. "Let go the wires, I tell you." "I cannot, sir, my hands are benumbed." On cutting off the current of course they dropped the wires. Each Indian was made to experiment for himself. Before letting them go the General recommended them to keep the secret and not tell it to their countrymen. Of course they did quite the contrary, and told every Indian what they had seen and what had happened to them. Since then not a wire has been damaged, because they now all believe that if they touched the wires they would be caught and held prisoners until the troops came up. 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HE envied not the pomp and power He sighed not for the gold that shines He walked on earth as wood streams pass He kept, in days of strife and wrath, Christian Register. From The Westminster Review. at an early age, of consumption, which ultimately carried off his mother and two sisters. The lines entitled " A Deathbed" "We watched her breathing through the night, Kept heaving to and fro. "So silently we seemed to speak, As we had lent her half our powers WE give short names to those whom we love best. It would sound as oddly to amongst the most touching in the lantalk of Sir Robert Steele or Mr. Hood as guage- were written by Hood on the to call Milton "Jack" or Browning "Rob- death of his sister Anne, and first appeared ert." Our admiration for the writings and (minus a verse) in a Glasgow University genius of the author of "Paradise Lost," Album:is of course greater than what we entertain for those of Steele or Hood, yet we love the latter as men more than we love Milton. Goethe, Dante, Bacon, and Kant, are elevated by means of their strength and the character of their genius, beyond the range of our sympathies. Our admiration of them is more of the intellect than of the heart. Steele, Lamb, and Hood, on the other hand, are more like ourselves; we love them for their intense humanity for the very failings that help to draw them within the circle of our affinities. Tom Hood is one of ourselves, an intimate friend, a member of our family; with whom we can laugh and be merry, and to whom we can tell our secrets, and chat in a pleasant, homely fashion. We are at home in his company, as if we had been intimate with him from boyhood, and can fancy at times that we hear his quiet laugh, his merry quip, and see the pleasant smile that lit up his pale, solemn face. "Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied- "For when the morn came dim and sad, Another morn than ours." Hood's father died not long afterwards, leaving his widow and children slenderly provided for, and Tom, not to encroach on their scanty means, was articled to his uncle, Mr. Sands, an engraver. The knowledge and experience which he acquired while there, were of the utmost importance to him in after-life, enabling him to illustrate his own jokes with cuts only less comical than the jokes themselves. The confinement and drudgery of the business soon told upon his health, and he was shipped off to some relatives in Dundee. How he spent his time in Scotland is not known. He appears to have lived happily enough, and was greatly benefited by the strong sea air. While there, he made his first appearance as an author in the Dundee Advertiser. He gives a pleasant account of his boyish delight on first beholding himself in print, which contrasts painfully with some remarks on the same subject which he let drop, many years afterwards, to his friend Mons. de Franck, half-pay officer in the Prussian army. 2. The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Seri- The latter had been accusing Hood of laous, in Prose and Verse, with all the original illus-ziness in writing, on which the poet retrations. London: E. Moxon, Son, & Co., Dover Street. 1870. The lives of authors are proverbially barren in incident, and that of Tom Hood is but a record of suffering and trouble, unrelieved by aught save a few stray gleams of sunshine, and by the never-failing halo of a happy nature, which served to brighten the dark outlines of his life. Tom Hood was born, May 23rd, 1799, in the Poultry, London. His father was a native of Scotland, who had travelled South, to seek his fortune, and, like most Seotchmen of a migratory nature, never returned to his native country. He was from all accounts a good man of business, and held in respect for his social and moral virtues. His family consisted of James, Thomas, and four daughters. James died 1. Memorials of Thomas Hood. By his Chil dren. plies: : |