Half an hour before the beginning of the per- but what could I do? In a few words I told formance, on the way to Australian fame and him of my mishap, whilst the audience shouted, its golden reward, I was upset by the stupid" The conductor." He made his appearance, driver, and lay in the mud of Sydney. What and related in a confused way the lamentable a fall! my dress-coat and gloves were spoiled, story of my two dress-coats; adding an extemand the question arose how to remedy the loss. porized biography of myself, and suggesting to Like King Richard, I raved through the the honorable company that, under such cir streets, "A dress-coat, a dress-coat! a king- cumstances, a genius might be forgiven for his dom for a dress coat!" A German tailor took want of courtesy even to so distinguished an pity on my despair, and with truly German audience; and he wound up his speech by amiability he sold me for L.8 a dress-coat-not asking whether the ladies and gentlemen would precisely black, but light-blue, with yellow allow Mr. Hauser to play or not. "Yes," rebuttons, and not exactly fitting me: still it was plied a voice from the dress-circle; and "Yes, a dress-coat. I now hastened to the Royal yes!" was the general shout throughout the Victoria Theatre. assembly.

I was rather nervous at my second appearance on the scene of action, but with the Siciliana I made a bold attack on the ears of the punctillious public. Tremendous applause rewarded and encouraged me; and when I struck up Rule Britannia, with Onslow's variations, the audience grew rapturous, and the ladies in the dress-circle clapped their hands, and said, " Very fine!"

The house was half empty when I arrived: the overture of La Gazza Ladra was just verging to its end, and the curtain was raised. I stepped forth, made a respectful bow, and was about to put my fiddle-stick in motion, when suddenly an outburst of indignation was heard in the dress-circle, and I was ordered to withdraw. Confused and surprised by such a greeting, I retired bashfully; and behind the scenes the manager received me with a des- The concert, in short, which had began unperate countenance, and the most serious der such ominous forebodings, ended in the reproaches, for having dared to insult the most gratifying way. The public seemed to gentry of the city, the best society of the anti- be content, and all the places for my next perpodes, by appearing without gloves, and in a formance are taken and paid for. sky-blue dress-coat. Indeed, it was too bad;

Fade, one by one?

Wait till the clouds are past, then raise thine Hast thou found life a cheat, and worn in vain

Its iron chain?

soul bent beneath earth's heavy bond? Look thou beyond;

If life is bitter there for ever shine

Hopes more divine!

Art thou alone, and does thy soul complain
It lives in vain ?

Wait, and thy soul shall see, when most forlorn, Not vainly does he live who can endure.

Rise a new morn.

From the Times, 13 Aug.
WAR OVER ALL EUROPE.

ropean liberty is to be crushed by division, and the greater States are to be charged with an onerous duty, because it is too much for the smaller ones; and on the other hand, we are not to avail ourselves of that universal love

Russia; and it is impossible to carry on the war so as not to affect these tendencies to change in one way or another. But the THE status quo, as it is called for want of a whole of the continent is in such a case that better name, is not always easy to preserve it must be either for us or against us; there is even in time of the profoundest peace. In- no middle course; and, if we abstain from usdeed, it would be difficult to name any year ing any aid at our disposal from any scruple since 1815 in which the existing state of Eu- of interference, we shall find it soon on the rope was not seriously threatened from one enemy's side. The whole of the continent is quarter or another. With one nation con- threatened by the ambition of Russia; it offers tinually sickening, and another, as it imagined, no resistance, because it is divided and weak. in a vigorous infancy; with one nation always It is that division of States and councils that changing its Government, and another believ- encourages Russia, and suggests the hope of ing its Sovereign to be either a vicar of the her mighty unity one day swallowing up the ALMIGHTY or a sort of natural demigod; with whole crowd of smaller States. In fact, that a revolution here, a civil war there; a Queen is the reason why the great task has fallen in her teens, or a King in his dotage; one upon the Western Powers. It would be hard State expelling the Jesuits, and another invit- indeed if, on the one hand, the cause of Euing them; there really never has been a time, and there never will be, when Europe may be said to repose, and the balance of power become a state of rest. With the certainty that there will always be some considerable change or another before the expiration of a twelve- of freedom and hatred of tyranny which rises month, and that change not a casual, unfore- above mere national considerations, and binds seen one, but the legitimate result of causes now together in one cause the subjects of different visibly in operation, it is obviously impossible to Governments. It is quite possible that the escape responsibility. Life is an affair of mo- presence of Italians, Poles, Hungarians, and tion, in politics as well as in physics; and the we know not what nations, in our armies may greatest change is that which follows the great- have some effect on the public opinion and est cessation of movement and power. We fortunes of Europe; it is possible that, as the must either live or die, and if we live it must French Revolution was greatly aided by the be a life of progress and change. Apart from soldiers who had helped the Americans in the the morbid and accidental causes of change War of Independence, so the employment of which some people think ought either to be foreigners in the cause of the Western Powsuppressed, if possible, or not to be taken into ers may lead to political changes. That is account, every nation in Europe has some in- quite possible, and, if it is idle to expect much stinct, some tradition, some dream, some des- result on the fortunes of Europe from an tiny, which it believes to be not morbid, nor Italian or Polish brigade, it is also idle to exadventitious, nor separable, but part of its very pect no result at all. We do not, indeed, exbeing, and the most glorious part. It has to pect that any soldiers regularly trained to war, diffuse freedom, or to suppress license; to teach and accustomed to encounter their foes in the nations to govern themselves, or to bow to an face of day, will be therefore the more disposimperial will; it has to propagate a religious ed to the crimes that have hitherto disgraced faith, or an intellectual school; it has to assim- the Italian name. No man who has crossed ilate discordant races, or to revive a lost na- bayonets, stormed a breach, charged into the tionality. Could Europe rest, could any Gov- heart of a hostile force, or done any other ernment be content to look on, even in that deed of arms, will condescend afterwards to very pause faction will find its opportunity, assassination. With Lord Palmerston, we cerand supply the universal and inextinguishable love of change with the excitement in cannot get from foreign politics or war.

tainly believe that a trained soldier is likely to be a good subject, and a good citizen-in fact, a friend of order. Indeed, there are few men There is, then, a downright absurdity, natu- who would not be improved by a military ral enough in such politicians as Mr. Bowyer, training. Yet, if an Italian brigade should but rather out of place in statesmen like Lord eventually be found a useful auxiliary to the J. Russell, in attempting to throw on the Min- cause of Italian freedom, we see no reason on istry charged with the conduct of this war that account to deprecate the aid of Italians. the additional responsibility of all that may If we do not employ Italy it is an element happen in all the nations of Europe for the against us. Its divisions detract from the next ten or twenty years. We repeat, there strength of our cause. So, as Italy must be is not a nation of Europe in which some great change was not quite possible, not to say probable, even if we had remained at peace with

for us or against us, we will choose the former, and throw upon those who have dragged us into war-the Russians themselves-all the

responsibility of employing independent States test. We shall be thought to be only making not actually engaged in the quarrel.

the best of a bad thing if we assert that war If the state of Europe were everywhere is a necessity of human affairs, and, like the quite satisfactory, if Germany were making a thunder or the fury of the elements, has its sure progrees to independence, Italy to relig- mission to purify, to quicken, and even to deious toleration and political prudence, and stroy. But that is the plain fact. War may even the Spanish peninsula to stability and be postponed, and sometimes is postponed too self-respect, we might perhaps think it worth long; but hitherto it has always come, soon or while to compare the uncertain advantage of late; and it has never been difficult to assign war with the certainty of interrupting the gen- the causes of the inevitable visitation. Tweneral improvement. But there is nothing so ty years ago, had we listened to enthusiasts, we very desirable in the condition of these coun- should have declared war against Russia. tries-nothing to be retained at all costs, noth- More than twenty years ago she exacted from ing that can be set against the necessity laid the weakness of Turkey terms which were injuupon us of vindicating the liberty of Europe. rious and insulting to Europe. Our patience, We see in the condition of these countries our-our submission, as it may almost be called own danger and the danger of Europe, and has not purchased any pause to her ambicannot consider that what is so dangerous can tion, or any slackening of her preparations; be worth preserving at the serious cost of al- nor has it prevented the other countries of lowing the destruction of an ally and the tri- Europe from suffering their own share of calaumph of an aggressor. What if it were only mity. At length there is no choice left. We too certain that as the war goes on it will absorb have had to resist an act of insolence, which, all the nations of Europe in the quarrel, and under the circumstances, could only be conthat no vacillation, no selfishness, no divisions, sidered as an invasion of Europe. We have not even insignificance, can rescue a State to do so with the prospect of all Europe havfrom the conflict? That is no more than what ing ultimately to lend perhaps no willing hand occurred in the last war, and even Mr. Glad- to its own deliverance. We cannot avoid it, stone himself, with his reference to Lord Chatham, can hardly point to a time when we could have receded with honor, or even with a certainty of peace, from that protracted con

or altogether lament it. If it is worth the while of England and France to fight the battle of Europe, it is worth the while of Europe to do and suffer something for herself.

From the Transcript.

NAPOLEON I. AND RUSSIA.

army under Charles XII. at Pultowa, with our retreat from Russia. To find anything analogous to the ruin and disaster attending the WE are indebted to an esteemed contribu- formidable invasion of 1812, it is necessary to tor for the following translation of an extract go back to remote antiquity-to the time of from the closing chapter of a "History of the Xerxes, whose almost numberless fleets and arCampaign in Russia, in 1812," by M. Emille mies were scattered and annihilated by the paMarco de St. Hilaire, published in Paris in 1846. triotic valor of the Greeks, and by the storms The author, well known for his thorough ac- of the Egean Sea. The expedition to Russia quaintance with the history of the period affords a grand and sublime lesson both for about which he writes, surveys his theme from peoples and for kings. The peoples will learn a high stand-point, and appears to have formed from it that a brave nation need never abanan impartial and accurate estimate of the con- don itself to despair, and that it ever contains sequences both to France and to Russia, of that within itself the means of protecting its own campaign, which wrought an entire change honor, and of successfully resisting all attempts in the politics of Europe, made the Muscovite to reduce it to a state of vassalage. Kings, in Empire the first continental power, and placed reflecting upon it, will be driven to the convicthe Czar, up to that time an ally of France, at tion, that neither the number of their chariots, the head of that league of kings and petty nor the multitude of their battalions, nor that princes which ended in the destruction of the assurance, which an uninterrupted succession Empire and the dismemberment of France. of victories gives to the conquerors, can shield How far the predictions of the writer are to be them from those mischances, those caprices of verified, is a problem which seems likely to be fate, which change in a moment the condition solved by passing events in Eastern Europe of empires and transform the palms and lau"They have read history to little purpose rels of victory into the funereal cypress. who compare the defeat of the little Swedish "L'homme s'agite et Dieu mène tout,' (Man

From Chambers's Journal. MR. BROWN'S LAST ASCENT.

In practising gymnastics, he had knocked out three teeth; in yachting at Cowes, he had been four times nearly drowned; in shooting ONE fine summer-morning, a few years on the moors of Scotland, he had left the since, there was wonderful excitement in the grouse unharmed, but had blown off two of Irish village of Ballydooley. All the idle men, his own fingers. A taste for pyrotechny had women, and children in the neighborhood-singed handsomely his eyebrows, hair, and comprehending about nine-tenths of the popu- whiskers; and as to railway travelling, his lation-were assembled on the large level com-hair-breadth 'scapes and moving accidents, mon which served as a race-course and galling- amid collisions, upsets, and explosions, would green; and all thronged towards some object have served to fill two or three handsome in the centre, which formed the nucleus of the orange-colored volumes of the English Rail way Library, or the French Bibliothèque des Chemins de Fer.

crowd.

"Yea, then, what's the name of it at all, at all?" demanded one ragged gossoon.

"Is it tied to the tail of it he's going to go up?" asked another. "Ah, don't be foolish!" exclaimed an old man, the "6 sense-carrier" of the district; "don't ye see the long ropes he's going to hold on by ?"

At length, having tried three elements of earth, water, and fire, it occurred to Mr. Brown that the remaining one of air, as a medium of locomotion, might be more agreeable, and could not be more perilous, than the others. He accordingly the year before, when resid ing on his estate in Devonshire, had purchased "Well, well!" groaned an old woman, tak- an excellent balloon, and, strange to say, had ing her dudeen or short black pipe, out of her made several ascents, and had come down again mouth, and sticking it, lighted as it was, within in perfect safety. On this occasion, he medi the folds of her cross-barred cotton necker- tated a flight over the Green Isle, and intendchief; "them English are mighty quare peo-ed to come down at Belfast; but the best inple. I'm sure, when we heard that this Mr. formed members of the crowd asserted that Brown, with his sacks of goold, was coming he was going "every step of the way to Ameto Ritclarm, after buying out the rale ould stock of the Deasys, we thought he'd have car- A London friend, who had come to Ireland riages and horses galore, and maybe a fine on a fishing excursion, had promised to join yacht in the harbor; but it never entered the Mr. Brown in his flight; but, as it would seem, heads of any of us that nothing less would his courage failed, and he came not. In noserve him than going coorsing through the air wise discouraged, however, Mr. Brown was like a wild-goose at the tail of a ballone, or about to step into his aerial car, when a tall, whatsomever they call it." strongly-built man suddenly stepped forward, and politely saluting the aeronaut, said: "May I ask you a question, sir?"

For some time past, the process of inflating the balloon had been going on; and now the great gayly-painted orb towered tremulously above the heads of the gaping spectators, and pressing against the cords by which it was held down, it seemed only to await the arrival of the bold aeronaut to dart upwards on' its way.

rikky."

"Certainly."

"Is it true that you are going to America?" "No; merely to Belfast, wind and weather permitting."

him, he saw no serious objection to the plan, and accordingly signified his acquiescence, merely remarking to the stranger that his costume seemed too light for the regions of cold air which they would have to traverse.

"Belfast," repeated the stranger in a mus ing manner-"the north of Ireland. Well, "Here he is!" exclaimed the outward strag- that is just the direction towards which I glers of the crowd; and presently a carriage want to go, and I hate land travelling. Will drew up, and out stepped Mr. Brown, the Eng-you, sir, accept me as a companion?" lish millionnaire, who had lately become an Mr. Brown hesitated for a moment; but as Irish landed proprietor. Mr. Brown was a lit- he really wished for some one to accompany tle dapper man, whom a very small amount of pugilistic force would have sufficed to lay level with the soil of his adoption. He was one of those unlucky individuals who meet an accident at every turn-who, in entering a room, invariably slip, tumble, knock down some piece of furniture, or sit down beside their chair instead of upon it. He seldom escaped upsetting his ink-stand; sending his meat and drink the " wrong way," and then coughing and choking for half an hour; cutting his fingers, tearing his coat, or knocking his forehead against a door, so that he rarely appeared in society without scars, plasters, or bandages.

"Bah!" was the reply. "I have passed through more changes of climate than that, and I am happily very robust."

"Well," said Mr. Brown, looking at the massive frame of the unknown, "my car is large enough. Come, in the name of Provi dence!" So they took their places, and the word was given: "Let go!"

The fifteen men whose hands were severely

pressed by the straining cords, desired nothing| "Faster!" shouted the giant; and seizing better, and in a moment the freed balloon be- the remaining sacks of sand, he scattered their gan to ascend majestically. The crowd shout-contents to the clouds. Mr. Brown fell on his ed and clapped their hands. knees.

"Ah!" cried Mr. Brown, "this is delight- "Ah!" he exclaimed, "if you have no reful! Don't you think so?" Not receiving gard for your own life, at least have some pity any answer, he turned and looked at his trav- on mine. I am young, rich, happy; I have a elling-companion. There he was, lying almost mother and a sister: in their name, I conjure flat on his face and hands, with his head over you to stretch your hand up to the valve, and the side of the car; his eyes were fixed, his save us from a dreadful death, by allowing hair bristling. some gas to escape."