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No. 41.-Vol.. IV.
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SUBIACO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1877.
OFFICERS OF STATE AND THE
TEE GREAT RUSSIAN INCAPACITY. slang and words mis-need. Just as when CORONATION. incapacity has been curiously persons feel deeply or are much out of temper, Russian they experience a craving to say thingstothe Ministers who conduct and illustrated of late by the contrivers of both the of Most be reverse to polite, so when they desire the the Asian and European plans of campaign. control public business are comparatively resist THE DANUBE. to funny they appear to be unable Their strategy, such as it is, is too evidently speaking nowhere, says the Pall Mall, at a allow their sportive tendencies traditional, exposing them to delays, cliff - coronation. The Lord Chancellor, the Lord No language can possibly describe the inclination to re are which terms in themselves far betray It to culties, and calamities innumerable. The Privy Seal, and the Lord President of the superb scenery of to -day's journey. for their eccentricity. One is, result has been, certainly in Asia, the con- Council, indeed, are visible. But the: importranscends anything I ever saw or conceived markable justified conch the to coming in spicuous breakdown of that brazen idol with tant men of the day are the Lord High of woodland or of river scenery. It is the therefore, vocabulary of unexceptionIt Lord part of the Danube where the waters break elusion that ofourexpression is weak and un- the clay feet-the Russian army.entered Steward, the Lord High Constable, the mobilised in November, 1876, and Great Chamberlain, and the Earl Marshal ; from the great basin of Hungary through the ale modes turn we when Yet occasions. the the First Lord of the Treasury. the Chancellor mountains. When we first left Orsova the equal to great words which most folk employ, Roumania on April 23, 1877. It crossed the First Lord of the Danube into the Dobrudscha on June 23 hills were one green wilderness of massive to examine the they are privi- into Bulgaria on June 27. The Muscovite of the Exchequer, which those of the up irrespective views the and Admiralty, and all the Sceretaries of State and unbroken foliage, call to lexicographers force on the right bank of the Danube at the are for the noncelin obscurity. The offices valleys were very sweet indeed. But soon Jeged by recognised that most are either profane, of of the @relit Chamberlain and the Earl huge and shadowy cliffs began to show into use, we find or literally without any present moment is about 180,000 men, indecent, vulgar, twice or once woods, the which 50,000 are in the Dobrudscha, and the Marshal are hereditary, and consequently themselves among angry is he if man, a all. Many rest in Bulgaria, between Sistova and always exist, the one now held jointly by the Danube pressed his waters through meaning at will call that enemy a The Dobrudscha force is stuck Lady Willoughby de Eresby and Lord Cholawful walls of sheer precipice. At first I with an enemy.prefacing the word scoundrel Tirnova. " by scoundrel very " much, fast in a particularly unhealthy country be- mondeley, and the other held by the Duke thought it like the Rhine, only feel not do we which adjective much superior, because of the woods, instead by &descriptiveprint. Yet it may be pointed tween Babadagh and Match* on the eastern of Norfolk. But the offices of the High to side of Trajan's Wall, unable to advance for and High Constable of England are of miserable, tame, formal vineyards ; but called upon majority of cases the man is want of supplies of all sorts. The Bulgarian Steward the in that, fearout and are only temporarily represently the magnificence and almost sort of scoundrel from force had been similarly situated in a in abeyance, different a totally Rhine the drove scenery the of vived, the first for state trials and coronaful grandeur force real no that and be. to devastated district, of which even the wells tions and the second for coronations alone. utterly out of my thoughts. The woods were what he istosaid the charge against him by the are dry. It suffered two sharp repulses at In Scotland both offices are hereditarily reprincipally deciduous trees with an immense is added which Again, embellished. is it in all manner were they and the Prince of Wales is the Biela, and has occupied Tirnova, where it ; profusion of walnut, desire to be particularly met with no resistance. This is positively all presented Steward and Lord Errol is the matted together with wild vines, clematis, if some individuals hereditary understood be to it wish they hereditary High Constable ; and in Ireland and very large white convolvulus, while be- emphatic-if fully determined to do certain it did in a fortnight. tween his banks the river writhed and that they are I wills, lam goingtos," &c., are Lord Shrewsbury is High Steward. At the boiled over bars of rocks, effectually for- things-their of fearful prophecies of what coronation of William IV. and of her sorts by bidding all navigation. But now the cliffs headed Majesty, the Duke of Hamilton was Lord to do what WAR. fail if they them to happen will of miles receded, and there came some High Steward, and the Duke of Wellington pro Butthe to perform. incessant wood, with beautiful valleys, they are undertaking The life cost of war is a subject that has was Lerd High Constable at the coronations evidently and absurd palpably through whose woody gates we obtained ex- phecies are received just now, not inappropriately, a of George IV., William IV., and the Queen. so far as those who make illustration or appraisement. The Lord Great Camberlain and the Earl quisite glimpses up the mountainous glens. have Ito meaning in spite of the gross most impressive concerned, are them consummate of I remember, One in particular A statistical account of the Prussians killed Marshal carry out the arrangements for the in Cases put. are they in which wounded during the Franco-German coronation between them, and all four great loveliness. It was on the Servian shore ; manner be multiplied. If wits of the and to the Medical Examiner, officers attend to receive the regalia from the and far inland there rose a huge mountain, point may be jocose when they are War, according to desire order minor the and lion, published at Berlin by the Messrs. Dean and Chapter of Westminster in the been in shape like a crouching has in will they departure, The total number of combatants, Jerusalem Chamber. There they are laid out valley broadened out, and left the mountain about to take their are going to mizzle, slope, Fischer.killed or wounded, amounted to 88,867, on a table, and are handed one by one by the standing alone against the sky. Then came form you they &c. Young ladies, either sked-daddle," it, hook village officers and 84,209 men. Of Lord Chamberlain of the Household to the 4,658 a large sealike bay, with a Servian comprising will jolly, thought wish it is to be officers 879, or 18.8 per cent., were killed Lord High Constable, and by him to the and church on a tongue of green fields, The whose the epithet the things sweetest the 1,447, or 31 per cent., were Lord Great Chamberlain, who delivers them broad river went by gently, wheeling apply to and to the most amusing on the spot; or 42.4 per cent., severally to the personages who are to have ; solemnly in glossy eddies. It was a scene of "awfully," " fearful." Yet the re - seriously wounded 1,979, adjective the matters be could feature a Lord Great ChamberNot slightly wounded ; and 353, or 7.8 per them in perfect loveliness. were is these as persons such of efforts the any peer Of heightened or improved. Then came the suit of speeches im- cent., were returned simply as wounded.sub- lain has the privilege of selecting their of many render they that but officers, 495 died he pleases to carry the sword of State, and cliffs again, no longer white and hoary, satisfactorily analysed, and the 3,779 wounded being of possible if he tees I hour wounds. Minister the next of their Prime For the effects red. the from a deep mottled he usually chooses themselves to the rebuke of dis- sequently at the well nigh beside myself ; had it been the expose is that The wounds, taken in connection with the is a peer. Lord Melbourne carried it misfortune The critics. criminating of Beaconsthem, were -56,062 coronation of the Queen, as Lord time of many colored autumn, instead themselves are not themselves instruments producing brown-leaved June, with its heavy green, I the criticsin the matter. Plain " I wills " from gun -shots ; 5.084 from shells 218 from field did the other day at the opening of 236 from frag- Parliament. But the rest of the regalia is bayonets from 595 should have lost my senses. Red cliffs, blameless sabres I wonts," and intelligent, if bold, stone, earth, &c. (thrown up by not at the Lord Great Chamberlain's disposal. masked in infinitely various degrees by foli- and " of facts failing to satisfy them ments of statements shootor walls, like the cause was St. Edward's crown is always borne by the abrupt of in 2,598 the nature age, or standing they fail to satisfy less superior shells) ; give a Lord High Steward, who walks immediately ing up into spires and pinnacles like castles, just as is not much to not returned. The following numbers there Unhappily, mortals. here receding from the view, there throwing before the Sovereign in the procession to the in this matter, for good idea of the parts most exposed to injury education mere from hope waters the the shutting that It seems strange her Majesty's coronation the themselves forward and simply seems to have the effect of from gun -shots. been struck more frequently Abbey. At were assigned-St. Edward's education ; these rapid turbulent narrow a up into head should have other regalia "gum," by "Jove," by swear men were the features of the scenery. To making " jingo," in the drawing-room, and than the chest ;-Head, 17.4 per cent. ; arm, staff to the Duke of Roxburghe ; the spurs to by 10-6 ; chest, 8.8 ; hand, 8.1 ; Lord Byron as deputy to Baroness Grey de describe them is quite impossible. At last and by sacred things and by things 131 ; thigh, we turned from the cliffs and saw the deep- by swearing 2.7 ; back, 2'3. The fact that the Ruthyn, in her own right (late Marchioness knee, when zest additional with sacred of wooded hills above Drenkova backed by the the reverse cases of sabre -wound did not exceed 218 of Hastings) ; the sceptre with the cross to deep, dull crimson of a stormy meet, and they go abroad would seem to indicate a sparing use of the Duke of Cleveland ; the sword of temporal the very a with that wearied believe to we arrived absolutely We are inclined cavalry during the war. justice to the Marquis of Westminister the strength of the impressions made upon us by large number of persons swear and curse sword of spiritual justice to the Duke of the scenery. Such a glnrious and divine almost inadvertently and without reference Sutherland ; the " Curtana," or pointless of indeed, if, loveliness say, and they mingling of grandeur to the meaning of what sword of mercy, to the Duke of Devonshire ; nature's smiles and frowns, as decks the they are fully cognisant of that, and for such VATICAN. the sceptre with the dove to the Duke of ECHOES FROM THE royal Danube all this day's journey, I never a system of perfectly innocent oaths and Richmond ; and the orb to the Duke of know that world never as the shall does I About no Sovereign saw in my life and I believe curses would be quite as efficacious Somerset. Oddly enough, the only herediHis I Father. which in Holy the astonishment about as silent the so much forget now in vogue. tary claim to bear any of the regalia is that travelled for many hours. I almost envied every -day life has been again and again to bear the spurs, which passed centuries ago that constituted so are beings Human out, in portioned is How his time the birds who were free to drop anywhere from the Hastingses to the Greys by marriage, occasions in their lives when they described. the leafy wilderness, or on the rocky ledges, there are an almost irresistible craving to hour by hour, the world has been repeatedly and came back in the same way to the heirpublic non-Catholic the even But and the 3reys, the or to suspend themselves in the air over the experience informed, the limits of legitimate speech. never tires of hearing all over again about general of the Hastingses middle of the Danube.-' The Life and step outside late Marquis of Hastings. Only one service be tolerant towards to well therefore, is, and It pure the D.D.," Faber, marking Letters of Frederick William the diurnal routine of tenure is now performed at the slang and mere verbal extravagances, since venerable life of his Holiness. As affording in respect itself-namely, by the lord of the by John Edward Bowden. a coronation occupying are they that clear pretty is it our readers the latest evidence of this, though Worksop, in Nottinghamshire, who place which if not filled by them, would be the paragraph subjoined will yied them not manor of by the grant of Henry VIII. to filled by something a great deal worse. But one particle of new information, here is what is bound a right-hand glove for the King at his society generally errs greatly in being in- is now going the round of the newspapers, find and to support his right firm as PIUS IX AND THE DAUGHTER OF THE dulgent to those beings who recklessly swear after appearing in such organs as the Paris coronation, he shall hold the sceptre that day. and curse, notwithstanding that they have Figaro and the Pall Mall Gazette :-" In long asreigns of Edward II. and Edward III. GOVERNOR GENERAL OF ALGERIA. In the been well educated, and can act like gentlefor the manor in summer the Pope rises at 6 a.m. We have already announced, says men when they are pleased to condescend winter asspends his time in prayer until 8 this service was to be rendered then He Chanzy, to of Farnham -Royal in Buckinghamshire, then Mdlle. seem of marriage persons Galignani, the so. As it is, such do to private his in celebrated is Maas the coronawhen -At held by the Lords Furnival. daughter of the Governor-General of Algieria, imagine that, except when they are in a.m., o'clock he breakfasts, and by Sir with M. Crepy, son of the Treasury-Payer - company with ladies, they may freely chapel. At nine his correspondence and tion of Henry IV. it was dischargedcourtesy General in the Ardennes. The Soir relates indulge in terms of speech which would dis- afterwards opens with his secretary, Cardi- Thomas Neville, Lord Furnival by in right of his deceased wife, the heiress of a curious detail of the ceremony. The young grace a London costermonger or a Liverpool transacts business He then gives private recep- the Furnivals, and through the marriage of couple signed the marriage register with a " rough." Nor is it altogether unreasonable nal Simeoni. -past half library until about his daughter and heiress the manor came to pen which had once belonged to Pius IX. that they should get such a belief into their tions in his semi-publie audiences it When quite a child Mdlle. Charms, was heads. They are not shunned on account of twelve, when thedeputations are received the Earls of Shrewsbury, who exchanged these At begin. on like conditions of tenure Worksop for presented one day to the Sovereign Pontiff the bad language they use ; provided that are read. These concluded, with the King. At the coronation of James by her mother, " Holy Father," said the they have good clothes on their backs, and and addresses attended by those among the II., the service was claimed by Lord Thomas little girl, with the simplicity of her age, " I plenty of money in their pockets no one the Pope, who more intimate with him, Howard, brother of the seventh Duke of are should like to take away with me a souvenir ventures to intimate openly that they are cardinals the galleries or sometimes in the of Rome." The benevolent old man smiled ungentlemanly because in every dozen words walks in the half-past one, when he dis- Norfolk, the Howards having derived manor of Worksop from the marriage of the at the infantine demand, and taking up a that they speak they commit a gross offence garden,hisuntil Monsignor by attended and suite, heiress of the seventh Earl of Shrewsbury If the offender were misses pen lying on the table near him, presented it against good taste reads the office of the with the thirteenth Earl of Arundel, and to the child, after blessing it, and said, cut now and then, if he were shown that the Reed, his majordomo, dines, afterwards his co -heirs are Lord Stourton and Lord Pope the p.m. 2 At day. sign serve to will it longer enfant, no mon " Take this, use of objectionable terms were taking a siesta for half an hour. The recital the Queen the your act of marriage." considered a gentlemanly accomplishment, of the breviary occupies him till half -past Petre. At the coronation of her a right-hand he might be led to reformation, which hewill four, when he visits the Holy Sacrament in Duke of Norfolk found right arm while her never be so long as he is not only tolerated his chapel, and afterwards walks again in glove and supported she held the sceptre. All the present regalia, but practically encouraged. He only needs is hot, is weather the when or, the galleries, STRONG LANGUAGE. for Charles II., exto be coerced to reform-outwardly, at any he is by the way, were made anointing spoon-the old regalia others as carried into the garden. On returning the with cept rests therefore it what rate,-and express to seem correspondence his Not a few people been sold during the 3,ebellion. to see that he does so. again occupied reading the private receptions having they feel in ordinary language, and even the much as himself and swearing have been banished until sunset, when most strait-laced are tempted occasionally to Cursing drawing-room. They should now recommence, and are continued until nine the use what may be termed excrescences of from Afterwards a circle is formed by banished from those places in which men o'clock. A few years ago a play called The Ticket of the Vatican, and general conspeech. These excrescences of speech take be inmates the have they until Not together. when of Leave Man achieved an extraordinary suctime, short a for on carried is many and various forms. Among the least congregate versation public tone and the public hate London theatre because a clerk who refined section of the community they assume will the what they ought to be.-Pberal the Pope partakes of a frugal supper and cess at a had embezzled £800 restored three -fourths the shape of oaths and curses ; while among become to his chamber," retires the better class of persons they adopt that of Review.
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