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    lie would receive the emblem of his superhuman authority . " When he banqueted with the younger and elder . Empresses , therepresentatiyes of all the powers of Europe stood in front of his table , aud when he called for wine , all tut the privileged disappeared , as though they had been the slavish guests , wearing golden fetters , who stood in the imperial tent of G-enseric . He came out of the cathedral into the street , wearing the white mantle of the empire , with , the crown on his head ( " flashing

    like a blaze of blue light , " says a smitten correspondent } , the sceptre in his right hand , and the orb in his left , and we are told that , " while he trod the ground like a lion , his eyes flashed , as in a moral intoxication . And such would be the appropriate effect of the worship he had received . His nostrils had been fed with ^ he fumes of incense ; he had been anointed in the name of the Most High ; he had heard , and vpTved , that his commission was from Grod ; lie had seen men of all nations—the most cultivated as well as the

    rudest—staring at his countenance , as though it had been divine , and he anticipated the flutter o fame that would be produced wherever a newspaper can be spelled , by the reports of his honour , glory , praise , and power , for that was the extent of the ovation . Moreover , © Yery form of flattery having been exhausted , the Czar is pitied . Literally , there ha , ve been bursts of compassion for this being , the proprietor of Russia . There is sympathy for his isolation , for his friendless dignity , for his position in the centre of

    millions , the master of all / the companion of none . In time ; we shall learn that when , at such a cost as the ambitious are willing to pay , a crown is obtained , its acceptance implies a sacrifice . Among the secrets of human nature there May be a mystery of sorrow suffered only by the possessors of thrones . But the one palpable and undeniable fact is , that rulers prize their regalia next to their lives , and would often prefer to lose life itself than to . live without the regalia . The meaning we discover in the Moscow ceremonial is , that the world adores material

    power ; and that though there is far more significance in an American Presidential election than in the coronation of a Hussian Emperor , plain principles of government have no chance of attracting the attention of Europe , while there is a rustle of purple and a gleam of jewellery to dazzle the eye .

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    EETEREND ABDUCTION AND IRUE - VEREND DEDUCTION . The ' romance of real life' means , real life disclosed ; for , with the exception of the quietest part of the middle class in this country , and rather a large but scattered minority of comfortable and quiet people , it is quite evident that real life has its constant element of romance— -that is , its unforeseen incidents , its play of passion , its triumph of wrong ; and the redress , when effected , has Bometiuies to take very picturesque aspects , even in houses with window sashes and street doors of the most ordinary and passive countenance . The Berkshire Chronicle tells one

    of these tales , and tells it very imperfectly . The place of action appears to have been Beading ; the first scene opens in St . Gileses church on a Sunday evening . There was seated a party of friends , amongst whom was a lady . While they were sitting , they were startled to see a gentleman enter the church , and take Lis seat a few yards from the pew in which they were . It was the husband of a lady in-tho party ; and , strange to say , even in England , tho siglr t of the husband created a consternation . Nor will tho reader wonder wheft he beard the s&quel . ' After * the

    conclusion of the service , as the party were leaving the pew , the husband approached ; , and toot hold of his wife , and compelled her to accompany him into the vestry . This happened , it will be remembered , in a church ; and the husband that thus exerted his authority was himself aclergyman—Mr . Cherry , the rector of Burghfield , a rectory near Heading . The vicar hastened to the vestry , we can understand with what motives ; for already decorum

    the , of the church appears to iia to have been invaded by this intrusion of a personal dispute . In the vestry Mr . Chebby turned to the vicar , and asked him , as a brother clergyman and as a friend , to use his influence " for promoting a reunion . " The vicar declined ; he suffered the lady to retire into his vicarage , and the husband , after some hesitation , retreated , professedly to go home . Here the first scene closes of this two-act drama .

    We are told none of the reasons why the lady left her husband , but we simply point to the fact that the vicar declined to interfere , and that he permitted her to find a refuge in his house . Also , let us note , the husband sought the intervention of a stranger "to promote reunion . " " We can hardly venture to guess what could "be the arrangement between husband and "wife in which the husband could desire a reunion brought about by third parties . . The next scene is at a private house in

    Southampton-street , where , we conjecture , Mrs . Cherry resided with her friends . Mr . Ciiebby appears with , a solicitor , a superintendent of police , two constables in plain clothes , and his own gardener . The lawyer and the superintendent knock at the door , are admitted , and the door is closed . Presently one of them reopens it , makes a sign to Mr . Csebby , who rushes into the house , fo llowed by his gardener . A great bustle is

    heard inside , and loud screams . A lady is seen to come forth into the passage , without bonnet or shawl ; oil one side of her is the gardener , on the other the police superintendent , and behind , the husband , all urging her forward . She is forced down the steps , through a garden , into a carriage , and borne off it is said , to Burghfield Beetory . On her passage from the house , she cried , " Is there no one to save me ? " Here closes the second

    which can evince itself in this manner ; which can place the violence of * a man's grasp upon , gentle flesh ; which can extort compliance with its wishes in spite of screams and appeals for rescue ? The couple probably were married in due

    course—Mr . Chebby has his marital rights —it is all in form according to the law ~ $ i $ d customs of this country . The law and customs of this country , therefore , are such , that love assumes an aspect of tyranny , and takes its satisfaction while inflicting terror and agony upon the helpless . Such are the boasted morals of England !

    " We are not at all assured that the case is even very bad , or worse than many others . It is true that all women have not the moral force to make a public appeal ; that many are restrained by woman ' s shamefacedness from screaming , or displaying their suffer ings . Many , perhaps , would not go the length of leaving their husband ' s home , whatever might he the penalty of remaining . Is the suffering the less ? Is the tyranny of necessity milder ? Is the outrage upon natural feeling diminished ? It was no doubt the

    consciousness that there was no peculiar calamity which prevented the bystanders from obeying the natural impulse to rescue helplessness from violent attack . The forbearance of the bystanders , therefore , tells us much that the quiet veil kept over English life conceals . If the incident were exceptional , it would have created a sensation , which could not have been repressed , and the outraged woman would necessarily have been rescued . She was nqp rescued . The bystanders , tlien , aud those whom

    they represent—and they appear to have been amongst the most respectable class of ^ Reading—do not regard such aspects of affection as any thing exceptional or revolting . . It is a logical inference that such aspects of affection are not unusual , and that English society is reconciled to them by habit . " Would it be possible for the strongest arguments which have been used on this subject to . present a more painful test of the state of English society than the direct , immediate , and natural deductions from this romance of real life in the quiet county town of Heading ?

    scene ; and , as the story-books say , we ought to presume that Mr . and Mrs . Chubby , having retired to the sacred precincts of Burghfield Rectory , " lived happy ever after . " The scene which we have described made a great sensation in the populous street of Heading , and well it might . When the public Lave presented to 'them this plain evidence of domestic discord and of marital constraint

    they are shocked . It is frightful to see a woman pursued into a place where ahe has sought a jefuge , carried away by the force of three men , and crying in vain for rescue . Unquestionably that lady must have had strong motives , right or wrong , for dreading the interposition of her abducer . Wo know nothing of the merits of the case , if such a case can have ' merits . ' The facts before the

    public are enough for one judgment at least . It is to be presumed that the husband was moved by strong affection for tho lady ; because , if . we are to cast aside the idea of affection , if wo are to view the scene simply as an exercise of authority without that motive , it becomes so revolting that we can scarcely comprehend how any of tho bystanders could have tolerated tho scene , how they could have suffered the helpless woman to be carried off into simple bondage . We must suppose , therefore-, that there was something which must bo called affection , and which restrained the hands of Mrs . Chebby ' s friends . But how ate \ re to apprehend the uaturo ^ of a love

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    THE PANIC . Never has the commercial world of this country been iu a state at once more hopeful or more instructive . The wealth of the country is continually increasing ; a larger portion of that wealth is continually , though far too slowly , finding its way to the hands ' the working classes ; we are as continually diminishing the risks , which have proverbially attended upon trade , even as we are diminishing tho risks -which have attended the

    commerco of the seas . As shipwreck haa been reduced to a per-ceutage and can be covered by insurance , so tho risks of trade have been counterbalanced by its certain successes , and commerce is bringing comfort to larger numbers by every reform in its operations . Still , however , we see the most experienced men declaring that the supply of

    money , and the manner of arranging , the money , are not sufficient for tho actual ^ , dimensions of trade . Wo see the most ox-pelienced men proclaiming that bankruptcyj'fche rot of commerce , is eluding the supervision of tho Bankruptcy Court , and is eatinginto the very body of trade far more deeply-and ¦ widely than wo are permitted to seo ;' tfhd the cleverest of all confesses that he canrtbt account for the fluctuations "that disturb : ijh ' G reckoning ' of the merchant , "bringing tojb / m insolvency when he counted upon profit , and aoattering dismay upon all who depended upon him .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 901, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2159/page/13/