dition to give any further trouble to Denot or his the historian's credit. We have not selected our employers. Everything about him seems to have instances; we have, as we before said, taken what been buried and forgotten in the universal terror M. Thiers presented to us as his first and greatest that ensued, and we do not know that the proceed- objects; we have exhibited his mode of dealing ings of the châtelet have ever been re-printed; but with the two first and most important personages an historian ought to have examined such ordinary of each party-the king and queen, and the Duke publications as the Moniteur and the Journal de of Orleans and Lafayette; the two most remarkaParis; and although the deposition of Denot shows ble elections-those of 1789 and 1792; the two more distinctly the general connexion and detailed first émeutes-of the 27th of April and 12th of atrocity of the facts, it only affords an additional July; the two first massacres of the 14th and and stronger proof of what was already sufficiently 22d of July; the eventful and decisive days of the notorious; and its chief value, for our present pur- 5th and 6th of October, and of the 2d and 3d of pose, is, the singular precision with which it is September;-all, in short, that was most striking, found to belie every portion of M. Thiers' narrative most important, and most influential in the early of the events, and to contradict his apologetical revolution; all that required, in the highest degree, theory of their causes. diligent research, careful investigation, and an impartial spirit; and in all these great cases we have proved against him what we think we cannot-on the soberest reconsideration-call by any gentler name than a deliberate system of falsehood and fraud.

We must add that this case of Denot, though the most curions and best detailed that we possess, is by no means a singular indication that all these enormities were prepared by the same heads and executed by the same hands. M. Thiers is forced to admit that a fellow of the name of Maillard, for On the strength of that axiom of common sense merly a tipstaff or bailiff in one of the courts of and general law, falsus in uno-or which might law, played a great part on all these occasions-be, in this case, still more strongly stated, falsus in that he was at the head of an organized band of as- pluribus-falsus in omnibus, we believe we might sassins-that he was the most prominent leader of here close our case against M. Thiers as an histothe attack on the Bastille-that it was the same rian; but as the work proceeds, the deceptive prinMaillard who led the army of Paris to Versailles ciple on which it was originally planned exhibits on the 5th of October-and again the same Mail- itself in other and larger forms, and demands a furlard-still more decidedly damned to everlasting ther and more general examination, which we shall horror for having presided over and directed the take an early opportunity of pursuing and bringing massacre at the Abbaye. These things, at least, M. down to the latest issue of the "History of the Thiers cannot pretend to have been "accident" Consulate and the Empire," a work which, and "spontaneous excitement." Who then were though written with a somewhat different, but, as the employers and paymasters of Denot and Mail- we believe, a more personal object than the Hislard-who but the two main objects of M. Thiers' tory of the Revolution, is conducted with the same special protection and apology, Danton and Ega- habitual, if it be not natural and instinctive, bad lité? faith, matured by political experience, and still furHere, for the present, we must suspend our ex-ther developed by the closer study and imitation of amination. We have got through little more than the first livraison of M. Thiers' first work, and have already exceeded our usual limits; but this portion affords the most decisive and irrefragable tests of

that most stupendous of all cheats, upon whose panegyric M. Thiers' congenial pen is now employed.

DISCOVERIES IN THE ANTARCTIC REGIONS.

THE Cape Town Gazette, of the 25th July, contains some highly interesting intelligence from the antarctic region. According to these accounts the magnetic pole was nearly reached. The following is the substance of them :

"The barque Pagoda, hired by government for a scientific expedition to the antarctic regions, lately returned to Simon's Bay, and the following particulars connected therewith may be relied upon as authentic. This vessel, under the command of Lieut. Moore, penetrated, we understand, farther to the southward, (between the meridian of Greenwich and 120 degrees east,) than any other vessel ever attained unto before her; and completed the whole series of magnetic observations left unfinished by H. M. ships Terror and Erebus. The Pagoda very nearly reached the magnetic pole, but the quantity of compact ice and icebergs which she fell in with precluded the possibility of her advancement. Many important discoveries were made, which will doubtless be laid before the public as soon as the official report shall have reached home.

"She was at times surrounded by icebergs con

siderably higher than the mast-heads; notwithstanding which, the existence of the antarctic continent, viz., Victoria Land, has been confirmed beyond a doubt. The aurora borealis,' or northern luminary, was observed to be exceedingly brilliant, so much so, indeed, that at night small print was distinctly legible thereby-a truly rare circumstance in a southern hemisphere! The stores of natural history have been much enriched by collections of birds and fishes previously unknown. On her homeward track, the Pagoda touched at King George's Sound, where the hospitable treatment of the settlers and natives is highly spoken of; everything was going on well at that settlement. She next made the Mauritius, and returned to Simon's Bay after a circuit of nearly fourteen thousand miles in 140 days, having in that period fully accomplished the intended objects; when the vessel was delivered up in excellent condition to Capt. H. Byron, jun., her original commander, without a single casualty, not a man having been sick all the voyage; which may be mainly ascribed to the great care and attention bestowed by Admiral Percy in fitting out this barque for her hazardous and solitary task; and there is no doubt that the scientific world will be benefitted by its results."

DISCONTENTED DUKES.

Ar the Workshop Laborer's Friend Society the Duke of Newcastle warned people of the danger of overdoing sympathy with the poor, and especially of the mischief of letting them know that poverty is a misfortune, a thing which the poor could never find out except through the revelation

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Next to a discontented laborer-discontented because he will make his mind uneasy upon a point on which he has no occasion to be uneasy at all," namely, how his hands are to provide him with a sufficiency of bread, or what is to become of him when he can no longer toil for a bare sustenancenext to this shocking example of unreasonable discontent is surely that of a discontented duke, breaking his dear heart because East Retford is not represented in parliament, and because Popish students at Maynooth are provided with separate beds.— Examiner.

THE GAMBLER'S PETITION.

"The noble chairman rose to propose the Agricultural Laborers.' It had become of late almost the fashion to sympathize with the poor. There could not be a more worthy and excellent fashion, but even that view might be carried too far, and they might by injudicious representations and injudicious acts do more harm than good. If they took a man out of his situation, and made him disIt is reported that the keepers of gaming tables, contented by telling him poverty was a misfortune, whose traffic was put down at Epsom and other they would be doing considerable mischief, and places, and whose haunts were stormed by the pomaking his mind uneasy on a point on which he had lice in London, are about to petition parliament for no occasion to be uneasy at all, because, though his toleration and indulgence, comparing the gambling station was inferior to those who employed him, as carried on at their tables with the gambling on and though he could not possess those comforts so much greater a scale, and of so incomparably which wealth had at command, yet he might be a wider a range, carried on under the name of railhappy man, and would be, if he were not made dis-way speculation. They challenge comparison of contented. (Hear.) He (the noble chairman) the thimble-rig, or blind hookey, with traffic in had as strong a feeling for the poor man as any scrip; they argue that the gamester at their tables one, but he would not do anything that would sa- knows the extent of his venture, whereas in the crifice his future peace for the sake of his present bubble speculation the risk is boundless; they conhopes; he should not think he was doing his duty tend that no cheats can be charged against them of by holding out the promise of an object, which it the magnitude of fraudulent railway schemes, and was utterly impossible the poor man could obtain. they observe that the frequenters of their tables There were high and low, rich and poor, in this were generally persons of dissolute habits, who world, and we should be contented and happy in the could hardly be made worse, and who were already situation in which we are placed. There was noth- on the road to ruin, while the more baneful railway ing more deserving of respect than a well-beloved speculation has drawn within its giddy vortex poor man; his conduct always commanded the every class and order of society, women especially good feeling of those who witnessed it He trust- being deeply involved in it, and urging on their ed they would all do their best to better the poor husbands; whereas no wife ever sent her husband man's condition without ever hinting to him that he to the gaming table to repair or improve his forought to be what he never could be. The rich man tunes. They remark, too, that the class appointed depended upon the laborer for his wealth, and the to present examples to society have appeared in poor man on him for employment, and thus there great numbers, lending the sanction of their names was a mutual dependence which it was highly es- to railway speculations, a thing which no clergysential to preserve. The noble duke concluded by man ever did in the less dangerous instance of the speaking in warm terms of the farmers and farm common gaming table. They liken the provislaborers of Nottinghamshire, the latter of whom ional committees to cogged dies, with this differwere as well or better paid than the laborers in ence, that the false die has not held out any speany other county." cial promise of security, and that though false, it is What a virtuous sentiment for a duke is that- not a decoy; and moreover, the stake lost through "we should be contented and happy in the situa- it is not unlimited. In fine, they pray for the restion in which we are placed." Dukes should be toration of hells and common gaming places as the happy, and laborers should be happy. But what homeopathic remedy of the prevailing mania, an example does this duke set in support of his which they observe has sprung up on the suppresmaxim. Is he not of all dukes the most unhappy?sion of the more limited and less injurious means Is he not always repining, bewailing the ruin of the constitution, and predicting the overthrow of all things has he not filled the country with his plaints? And why, putting to him the torture of his own question, has he made his mind " uneasy on a point on which he had no occasion to be uneasy at all," the safety of that constitution which has happily been ruined a score times within as many years?

Somebody surely has been hinting to the duke that "he should be what he never can be," the saviour of his country.

of indulging in the same passion; and moreover, by reestablishing them, they assert that bubbleschemers will be put to shame by the fairer dealings of even the worst conducted hell.-Examiner.

THE German papers mention a curious old custom still existing in Bavaria. "The crown princess was lately delivered of a son; and, in accordance with the regulations of the royal family of Bavaria, Graf Von Sensheim, the minister of finance, had the high honor of a lying-in audience with her Royal Highness the crown princess, on which he presented Oh that benevolent laborers would form an asso-to her Royal Highness the customary childbed present ciation of the friends of dukes, to teach them to be of 1,000 ducats." contented, and happy and quiet in their spheres. Repeating the words of the Lord of Clumber with a more exalted application, they would say this same Duke of Newcastle" might be a happy man, and would be if he were not made discontented."

A CENSUS of Madrid has just been completed, from which it appears that the population at present amounts to 188,227 souls.

From the Dublin University Magazine.
TRAVELLING IN INDIA.

I suppose you know that a palanquin is something like a couch, with light wooden sides and roof; and the easiest position in it is lying at full length. In fact, as you never travel during the day, you always undress, and make yourself com

BLAME me as much as you like, my dear Sybel, for my silence, for I feel I deserve blame, though, as I have often told you, my life here is so monot-fortable in your dressing-gown. onous, that I have in general little to say. But lately I have been thinking much of you, and of our long conversations regarding the luxuries of India; and I remember well that all I could say had not the power of convincing you that, what in England might be considered luxuries, or, at any rate, unnecessary comforts, are absolutely required to keep us in tolerable health in India.

You scarcely believed me when I assured you I should never wish for them, were I only living in dear England, or how very little they contributed to one's real happiness. You cannot imagine the weary longing that comes over my heart, when in sickness or sorrow I think of home, though surrounded by everything that F— can give me; yet, the pining for one's "ain countrie," makes all of little value.

Do you remember the lines that E copied into my book?

"Oh, grant me in a Christian land,

As I was born to die-"

How often have I repeated them, as I passed the melancholy-looking burial-ground, always made far away from the church in this country. But, my dear Sybel, I must not write so as to make you sad. That would be a poor return for all your welcome letters; besides, I sat down with the intention of sending you rather an amusing letter, viz., an account of my journey, when taking Frank to the beautiful Himalehs, (never call them Himalaya, that is quite wrong;) and though you will find it difficult to believe that it was really I, you must not imagine that I am exaggerating in the least-far from it, I assure you.

You have eight men, (bearers,) four of whom carry you at once, two before and two behind; and the other four run alongside, and take their turn about every five minutes. Your servants travel in lighter conveyances than a palanquin, and have four men each. Then your clothes are packed in square boxes of equal size, and one is fastened to each end of a strong bamboo, which is then put on a man's shoulder, and he keeps up with the rest.

Then, to complete your luxuries! a man with a long torch in one hand, and a bottle of most dreadful oil in the other, keeps quite close to your palanquin, in order to give light to the bearers; so you have the comfort of the smoke and the smell the whole night; and if you meet with no obstacles, and your bearers are strong, you go at the wonderful rate of three and a-half miles an hour, or perhaps even four! The whole set is changed every seven or eight miles.

I had almost forgotten to mention another necessary attendant on a journey in this country, viz., a native horseman, (called a Sowar) whose business is to keep all your bearers together, to see they do not put down your boxes, or run away with them, to make them go fast, &c. &c. So he gallops backwards and forwards, and with the most civil intentions, sends all the dust into your palanquin, generally not understanding half what one says, as these Sowars are servants of the native princes in the neighborhood and have not much to do with the English. And now, my dear Sybel, I have often told you about a dûk journey, but I do not think I have ever given you a clear account of what it meant, and I hope from my Well, I shall begin, as our story books do, and present description you will be able to understand tell you that once upon a time F- was stationed what luxuries I am about to enjoy whenever I at Delhi, and as my child was to go home in a few write that I am travelling, or am going to travel months, we determined to try and keep him with us dûk, and when you have finished my letter pray there, though, being four years old, it was scarcely tell me by the next overland mail if you think it prudent to expose him longer to such a climate. at all more comfortable than travelling in EngStill, I thought we might keep him for our hot land! weather, by taking great care of him; and Delhi Well, off I started. I had four nights' journey was not so unhealthy as some of the other stations-stopping during the heat of the day, at small in the neighborhood. Before the end of May, all the small portion of color that he had gained in the preceding cold season, and in the bracing climate of the Hill Country, where we had passed the two previous summers, left his little cheeks; and in time the poor child began to suffer from the heat. He had constant fits of fever and ague, which severely tries the constitution of a grown-up person, and speedily undermines the tender frame of a child. Doses of quinine every ten minutes being unavailing, at last the doctor recommended me to take him to the Hills again, as the only means of preventing a recurrence of the fever. My husband could not be spared from his official duties, and I could not leave him for the whole season alone; so I asked a friend to receive my boy for me; but as he was too ill to be trusted only to native servants for the journey, (about two hundred miles,) I at last prevailed on F- to let me take him myself to the foot of the Himalehs, where my friend Mrs. S made arrangements for meeting him. So I started on the 6th of July, with my child in my palanquin, and two servants -a man and a woman-with me.

bungalows erected by government, for the convenience of those unfortunates who are compelled, like myself, by some urgent reason, to make a journey in the hot season. The first night was oppressive and sultry to a degree, the second was a little cooler, and all the different innocent reptiles were enjoying themselves. The frogs croaked so loud that sleep was out of the question, even had it not been for the snakes, who seemed to have taken a particular fancy to the road that night and kept coming under my bearers' feet, and they very obligingly threw me down every time they saw one. Five times in one hour, did they throw me down, and scream out, “snake, lady, snake," and though I was not hurt, still you will allow it was not pleasant.

However, I reached the house of our old friend Harry F, at the end of that night, and after a comfortable day's rest, again I started. When I had gone about ten miles, I felt sure we were going to have a thunder storm, which came on violently, very soon. The pouring rain speedily extinguished my torch, and we were in perfect darkness, excepting from the flashes of lightning

-then came the thunder exactly over our heads, | from a kind of barley forming part of the crops, and then the bearers said they must put me down which, when ripe, turns blood red. Behind these and wait; however, I insisted on being taken into a village which we were just entering, and on being placed under the projecting roof of a house until the storm should be over, for the rain was so violent that I feared the palanquin might be wet through, which would have been the means of giving my child a return of his fever. So they did as I told them, and, after about an hour and a half's delay, we started again, and finished that night's journey without any other interruption.

The next morning imagine my delight at seeing the snowy range in the distance-oh, so clearly against the bright sky! The sight of snow even at so great a distance, warmed my heart-how I At Simlah I had the pleasure of working in my wish I could describe it to you. Between Simlah garden again, which is impossible in the plains, and the Eternal Snow there are four ranges of and the English flowers flourish very well; dahlias hills to the north, rising one above the other. were splendid from the seed you sent me, dear The two nearest are cultivated, and most brilliant | Sybel.

Some of the inhabitants of Thibet came into represented. Not a drop of rain either had fallen Simlah. I never saw such strange looking mor- near me, and I knew that Harry E- would tals. I was very anxious to purchase an ornament think I was detained by illness, or that something that the women wear; it is a long strip of leather, had happened, if I did not arrive at the time I had upon which turquoises of different sizes (some- told him; so I desired them to go on, which comtimes more than an inch long) and other stones are mand seemed to amuse them, though they obeyed attached; their hair hangs down their backs in it, and about six o'clock, P. M., I was put down on innumerable plaits, and this leather is fastened on the ground, close to a brook I had passed so lately their forehead, goes over the head, and hangs with little Frank; then there was scarcely water down in the middle of the hair; it is more curious enough to drown a cat, and now rushing and roarthan pretty, but I thought the turquoises might be ing furiously by! I got out of my palanquin, and of some value; none of them would part with it stood on a little bank just above the stream. The however. body of a native was whirled by me as I looked down. "Ah," said my bearers, no doubt drowned at the village above."

You will think from this long digression that I quite forget F was in Delhi, and that I actually ascended the hills with my boy; such is not the case, only the recollection of Simlah comes over me literally like green in the desert, and I could not help enjoying its verdure a little. I did not ascend a step; I watched poor little Frank as far as I could see him, and with rather a heavy heart I started at sunset on my return to Delhi

Now my adventures were to begin. Do not imagine that I endured anything very remarkable; many others have had quite as much to go through as I had-in fact, every one must, if they travel at that season, (just before the usual commencement of the rains.) However, I shall tell you the exact particulars, and I do not think you will reproach me for my luxuries, for a twelvemonth and a day at least.

I felt a little in despair, I must confess.

I watched an old ruin, which had stood high and dry when I saw it last, but was now in the middle of the stream, and I saw that the natives were correct in saying that the water was rising still. A number of people were collected, intending to cross, and I saw a crowd on the opposite side too. The flood had been so sudden, that no one was at all aware of it until coming near the river.

I thought of all at home, though as yet my courage had not deserted me. There I was, with every eye fixed curiously on me-the only white face among them-and many had seldom, if ever, seen a white lady before. In about an hour the lettercarriers came up to the halting-place, (our post goes on foot always in this country.) My bearers saluted them by saying they could not cross.

The first night of my downward journey over safely, and I reached the bungalow, whence I had" Letter-carriers dare not wait," they replied, and started two days before for the hills. I arrived at about five in the morning, and had not been there half an hour when another palanquin arrived. These bungalows are built to accommodate two parties, so the fresh arrival, a gentleman, took possession of the second half of it.

You will hardly credit me when I tell you he, at that hour of the morning, arrived tipsy. This I soon discovered from the noise he made, and from the disrespectful manner and sneering expressions of the natives around. I did feel ashamed for my countryman.

The morning passed away slowly enough. About one o'clock, unfortunately, a friend joined my neighbor in the other rooms, and very soon the noise rather alarmed me; at last they became so disagreeable, that, after eating a few mouthfuls of luncheon, I thought I would brave the sun rather than remain in their neighborhood; and at three I started-in my hurry leaving behind me everything eatable, excepting some tea and sugar, and a pomegranate.

At the time I did not think it signified, as I hoped to arrive very early the next morning at Harry E's house, with whom you know I had stayed on my way to the hills.

putting the bags on their head, they approached
the brink. There their courage failed them, and
they resigned themselves also to their fate. I
knew they would be able to swim across with so
light a load, long before my bearers could with my
palanquin; so I hastily wrote a few lines with my
pencil to Harry, telling him I was delayed by the
waters having risen, and, therefore, not to expect
me until I arrived, hoping, too, that I should soon
be able to go on, for that I had nothing to eat with
me. I gave the note to the letter-carrier, and a
rupee made the poor man very glad to take it for
me. He had just told me his life was a very hard
one. "If," he said,
66 a poor runner is drowned
in crossing a river, what do the Englishmen gen-
tlemen say? Oh, the poor man's wife and chil-
dren? No, they only say, 'How provoking-all
our letters lost of such a day.' My conscience
pricked me very hard, for I felt that might proba-
bly have been my first thought, had my English
letters been lost.

Night came; and where was the torch to be lighted? Not a hut within a mile or more. I luckily had not forgotten my lucifer matches, and I lighted a piece of paper, much to the astonishment of all around. I thought every minute an hour, When I started, it struck me that the heat was until they told me the water was lessening. About much less than I had expected at that hour of the ten the letter-carriers crossed swimming. As soon day; but it did not occur to me what had caused the as it begins to lessen, it does so as rapidly as it comparative coolness of the atmosphere. I went rises, and at midnight they took me up, and went on for six miles, when I noticed my bearers speak-to the water. I must say I trembled not a little; ing to every one they met, evidently asking questions; and at last the Sowar rode up to tell me that I should not be able to proceed, as the rains had begun in the hills, and that every one they met told them the rivers were unfordable.(Bridges are impossible luxuries in this part of the world.)

I had never travelled at this time of the year, and did not believe I should find matters so bad as they

but we safely reached the other side, and the bearers encouraged me with the hopes of getting on well, and I them, with hopes of a large reward if I did, we went on for nearly two hours.

Then the roaring of water showed us that another river was at hand. It was pitch dark, and I had nothing for it but submission, when the bearers told me they could not go on till day-light! To make it pleasanter, and take away all hopes of