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favor of the Stars and Stripes, and allow an | tously upon application to the respectable astute minister to enjoy the privilege of issu- chemist and druggist whose head-quarters are ing an unlimited amount of money without at the Tuileries. over-supplying a limited market.

feel that she is being selected as a subject for experiment, less for her own sake than for the sake of science. There is nothing so aggravating as this sort of discovery. When France was treated ten years ago for her critical complaint, her physician was intensely interested in the process. His life, his reputation, his future, depended on his success; and the event was fraught with as much dan

The sight of the Latin race taking its imperial medicine with such wholesome advantage to itself, is one that cannot but be most From The London Review, 15 Aug. instructive to all mankind, nor is it at all strange that the French should find an espeTHE EMPEROR'S LIFE PILL FOR MEXICO. cial pleasure in seeing administered to others THE Life Pill that has effected such aston- the bolus that they have had in their own ishing cures in Europe, and has restored mouths but a few years since. The unhappy France to youth and vitality, has just Mexicans perhaps at first experienced as much achieved on the other side of the Atlantic, surprise as delight at the arrival of the doca success quite as marvellous. Everybody tor. Nobody had sent for him; but in politknows in what a ruinous condition the health ical matters the universe has just now got a of Mexico was till very lately. The last in-doctor who does not wait till he is sent for, telligence-according to the French papers- but who insists upon paying gratuitous visits is most reassuring. After taking the pill in on the first suspicion of ill health in the question, Mexico has visibly recovered, and neighborhood. Mexico, moreover, cannot but is covering herself with glory by having boldly asked for more. Like other amateur doctors, the French emperor seems to have invented a recipe that suits all climates and all constitutions. It used to be said of the Whigs, that they believed that there was no ill to which flesh was heir which could not be promptly remedied by the application of British institutions and representative government. But Lord Russell's panacea is noth-ger to himself as to France. It is different ing to the emperor's "Life Pill." Whatever in the case of Mexico. The doctor is no the disease, whether it be a disease of the longer trembling in his closet during the opOld or the New World, of the Seine or of eration, with anxiety for the result of his the Gulf of Mexico, the course is the same audacious and ambitious nostrum. He is -a military blister overnight and the "Life doctoring the Latin race upon this occasion Pill" in the morning. The composition of in his dressing-gown. Whether the dose the pill is simple enough, for Napoleon III., succeeds or fails, is rather a matter of curilike Nature herself and Dr. Morrison, cre- ous speculation to him, than of absolute imates all his greatest effects by simples. The portance. The earliest bulletins, however, first thing to do is to burn a little of the will be satisfactory to French pride. The best French gunpowder under the patient's Mexican nation have hailed their new empire This has a soothing and quieting in- with the same responsive joy as that with fluence, and prepares the constitution for the which Nice and Savoy hailed the proposal for treatment that is to follow. Then take a their own annexation. General Forey enters handful of French agents, a few prefects, a Puebla and Mexico in a rain of flowers and few paid journals, a few directors of the press, laurel-wreaths. The Mexican newspapers reand some of the most vigorous repressive arti-joice to be placed under the same régime of cles in the Code Napoleon, stir boldly with universal suffrage if it can be procured, but, if not, any other suffrage will serve as well. The whole will form a composing globule of the most thorough imperial institutions, which the invalid should swallow at once on the point of a bayonet. Mexico has swallowed hers with great satisfaction; and professes herself now willing to swallow anything else that is compounded for her by the same imperial hand, and presented to her in the same fashion. The change is almost miraculous, and worthy of Dr. Parr. No political incurable need ever despair. The imperial Life Pill clears and invigorates all systems, puts every constitution in a healthy and sound condition, and can be had gratui

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avertissements as that which reigns at Paris. Everybody has declared in favor of French intervention, as in fact on these occasions everybody always does. An imperial crown has been at once offered to the Austrian archduke, who from the first has been the French emperor's nominee; and if he should refuse the gift, the Mexicans wish the French emperor to hand it over to whomsoever he may choose. This is the most remarkable feat in horse-taming that has probably been performed for many centuries. Rarey's system, as is well known, consisted of a judicious mixture of force and gentleness. The impe rial Rarey began with tying up the Mexican nation's foreleg. The result is sudden and satisfactory. The intractable creature caresses

"Forever singing as they shine,

The hand that made us is divine."

Rarey's hand, and the Mexican council of |ada and Central America respectively by the notables, now that the experiment is over, separation,-all would alike unite in oppoand the evil passions of their country have sing an increase of European influence on the been eradicated, go about like the stars in American continent. The reason that the Addison's poem,— South are now willing to affirm Napoleon's occupation is purely a military one. It is, therefore, of a temporary and passing nature, and their dislike to French interference in Mexico would revive when the emergency was past. Whatever be the issue of the present civil war-and it is possible that issue may be the one of all others the least expected by English critics-the policy of the French emperor with respect to Mexico and the Latin Sea is and must remain unpopular all through America.

The French emperor's turn for doctering, amiable as it is, seems likely this time to bring him into collision with Mexico's most powerful neighbor. It is clear that the attention of the Americans has been at last thoroughly aroused by the amateur operation that is performing in their immediate vicinity. So flagrant an interference with the principles laid down in the famous Monroe declar- The seizure of the Mexican capital and the ation, would never have been tolerated at all flight of Juarez is, then, a success which may but for the struggle between South and North. cost Napoleon dear, if it encourages him to The capture of the capital of Mexico is an enter upon a systematic policy of Mexican event of such novelty and importance that, renovation. The late victories of the North by common consent, both South and North render his tenure of Mexico precarious. It have fixed their eyes simultaneously on the may be questioned whether the North are not bold invader. In ordinary times it would be too strong for France in this matter. Grantthe interest of both alike to protest against ing even that the South achieve their indethe French invasion of Mexican territory. pendence, and that French frigates were to The South, however, now seem willing to raise the blockade, the South cannot give sacrifice the Monroe doctrine for the unsub- Mexico away, were they even desirous to do stantial advantage of French recognition. so. The policy would be too short-sighted to There overtures are, perhaps, less important last beyond the duration of the war fever; for the reason that they come at a moment but, at all events, the Southern Confederawhen clouds seem to be gathering over the tion while the Mississippi is in the hands of Southern cause. The sudden accession of the North, can at best be only powerful for power which the North, owing to their re- defensive purposes. It will never be a forcent successes, have obtained, gives, on the midable belligerent until, in course of time, other hand, an ominous weight to the re- it has created a navy and a maritime life for monstrances which, by this time, their di- itself. From this point of view the imporplomatists have lodged with the French em- tance of the capture of Vicksburg cannot be peror. Unless the statesmen of Washington overrated. The South, in gaining indepenrecede from all the traditional policy of the dence, will have to relinquish all hope of emUnited States, or unless Napoleon III. re- pire; and a permanent French alliance would cedes from his plan for converting the Mex-be productive of little beyond embarrassican Republic into a Latin empire, a collision ment to France. This is why, the French between France and America seems inevita- emperor's Mexican scheme is dangerous and ble. Disguise the object of the Mexican expedition as we may, it is what this journal has stated from the first, a bold and Utopian design to create a balance of power on the other side of the Atlantic, and to erect a barrier to the progress of the Anglo-Saxon race. The project may be chimerical, but it is certainly serious; and a fitting time has been The interests of England are neither diselected for its execution. With the cun- rectly nor indirectly concerned. Arguing ning of Achitophel, Napoleon III. has seen, abstractedly, the prosperity of the transatin the civil war in the United States, an op- lantic Anglo-Saxon race should be to Engportunity for his purpose, which never would land a political advantage, yet the history of have fallen to him if the Union had been un the century has shown that is is only an addivided, or indeed if it had been peaceably vantage in theory. The Radical party in dissolved. If North and South were peace- this country have doubtless suffered in presable and friendly rivals, far more if the United tige by the faults and follies of the American States were to resolve itself into a tripartite Republic, and they have not much to gain by Confederation,-whatever might be the vari- its disruption. But within the range of ety of interests created with regard to Can-proximate calculation, we have nothing either

chimerical. It can only succeed if the wings of the North are thoroughly clipped. All the gallantry of the South will not effect this; and the moment is coming when Napoleon III. may find that, in relying on the quiescence of the North, he is leaning on a broken reed.

to hope or fear from the imperial trans- to be seen whether he has not been playing a formations of Mexico. The French-if it game of hazardous speculation. The Archamuses them are welcome to embroil them- duke Maximilian might be willing conceivaselves there as they please. They will find bly to accept a precarious crown, for he is interfering for the Latin race an expensive young, and the young do not dislike advenrecreation. Touching America will be as ture. The pope may even bless him, and pleasant and as fruitful as touching a hedge- the French eagles may protect him. But hog. The emperor would not have ventured in settling the destinies of Mexico without to do it were it not that he is a dreamer, and regard to the traditions of America, the pope, imagines that the American struggle gives him the archduke, and the emperor are settling a chance of realizing his dreams. It remains without their host.

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ELECTRICITY OF THE CIRCULATION OF THE

Oh! say can you see through the gloom and the BLOOD.-M. Scoutetten has reported to the Acad

storm,

lation?

Like the symbol of love and redemption its form,
As it points to the haven of hope for the nation.
How radiant each star, as the beacon afar,

Giving promise of peace, or assurance in war!
'Tis the Cross of the South, which shall ever re-

main

To light us to freedom and glory again!
How peaceful and blest was America's soil,
Till betrayed by the guile of the Puritan demon,
Which lurks ander virtue and springs from its coil,
To fasten its fangs in the life-blood of freemen.
Then boldly appeal to each heart that can feel,
And crush the foul viper 'neath Liberty's heel!
And the Cross of the South shall in triumph

More bright for the darkness, that pure constel-emy of Sciences at Paris an account of some experiments made upon horses who were previously made insensible to pain. le found that the electric positive sign, indicating the direction of the current, was constantly from the red, or arterial, to the black, or venous, blood. He demonstrated that the red blood and the black concludes his memoir by saying that, since it is blood, in their contact through the walls of the vessels, which act as true porous vases, give stated electric reactions to the galvanometer, we must admit, that as all the parts of our body are traversed by sanguineous fluids, there must necessarily be a constant disengagement of electricity in the most relaxed tissues of our bodies. Thus each organic molecule is incessantly stimurelated by the electric fluid, and thus under the influence of this excitement, all the functions of the body are performed. The oxygen contained with which it is in contact, and produces heat, in the red blood burns up the organic molecules without which life is impossible. Under the influence of electricity is effected, during digestion, the selection of the nutritive molecules and their assimilation. The same action takes place in respiration, and in all the other functions. These of combustion. The carbon takes the negative facts perfectly agree with the electric phenomena electricity and the surrounding air the positive, or rather, the current is established between the carbon and the oxygen of the air. Now, the prin cipal action of the red blood, by reason of the oxygen in it, is the producing a true combustion in our tissues.

main

To light us to freedom and glory again!

'Tis the emblem of peace, 'tis the day-star of hope,
Like the sacred Labarum that guided the Roman;
From the shore of the Gulf to the Delaware's
slope

Tis the trust of the free, and the terror of foemen.
Fling its folds to the air, which we boldly declare,
The rights we demand, or the deeds that we dare!
While the Cross of the South shall in triumph re-

main

To light us to freedom and glory again!
And if peace should be hopeless, and justice de-
nied,

And war's bloody vulture should flap its black
pinions,

From The Spectator, 22 Aug.
BOSTON ON THE WAR.

Till

!dell Holmes. The readers of "Elsie Venner,"
-and who has not read that weird graceful
story ?-would find it hard to believe that
its author was a man of active life. In this
impression they would not be mistaken.
the war broke out, we believe that Dr.
Holmes never wrote a line about politics, and
held aloof from a pursuit for which his refined
and speculative nature almost disqualified
him. In the bygone days, so near in time,
so distant in fact, when" Quieta non movere
was the maxim by which educated men in
America guided their conduct, he was looked
upon by the Abolitionist party as the most
timid of anti-slavery men. And probably,
three years ago, the last thing which either
friends or enemies would have expected of
Wendell Holmes was that he would come for-
ward as an anti-slavery political speaker.

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It is not often that on this side the Atlantic we can catch a glimpse of what educated Americans think about the great contest in which their country is involved. Our newspaper correspondents, able as they are, write as Englishmen for an English public. The communications which come addressed to us from the States are all impregnated with the feelings of men who know they are pleading before an unfriendly audience, and who, therefore, involuntarily put what they consider the best face upon their case; while the American papers, and especially the New York papers-the only ones ever seen or quoted in England—are all infected with the love of exaggeration inseparable from a sensation press. On this account it is of real value to get hearing of the utterances ad- But the war has wrought already many dressed by an American of intelligence to changes in the United States. It has done Americans, to study the language intended away with the apathy of wealth and the diletfor home consumption, not for foreign ex- tante indifferentism of education. For good portation. Such an opportunity has been or bad, it has brought all classes together afforded us recently. On the 4th of last into an union never known before, and has July, Dr. Holmes was selected by the City shown men in characters new to the world, authorities of Boston to deliver the annual and newer still, perhaps, to themselves. The oration in commemoration of the anniversary enthusiasm for the Union has appealed to all of American independence. From that ora- classes alike, to old and young, rich and poor, tion we may gather a fair estimate of how learned and ignorant. It may-as Englishthe war is judged by the cultivated intellect men forgetful of their own antecedents are of the United States. It was delivered at, wont to assume-be a wicked and a foolish perhaps, the gloomiest moment of the Fed- enthusiasm. But, like all genuine enthusieral fortunes. General Lee was encamped in asm, it ennobles those whose minds are awakthe heart of Pennsylvania; the struggle be- ened by it. Dr. Holmes himself is no longer tween him and Meade was being waged with of the age when men go out to fight. But varying success; and it was possible that any his only son has gone forth in his stead; and hour might bring the tidings that the North- if in parts the orator's language seems ern armies had been routed, and that strained and exaggerated to us, we must rethe Confederates were marching upon Wash-member it was spoken by a father who knew ington. No doubt, at the very moment the any minute might bring him tidings that he, harangue was being delivered, Lee was re- like so many of those whose faces he saw treating as rapidly as he could, seeking safety around him while he spoke, was left childless in an inglorious flight, and General Pember- by the cruel fate of war. However, in his ton was arranging with Grant the terms of address there is nothing of the stereotyped the capitulation of Vicksburg. But no news American self-glorification. Scarce an alluof these great successes had reached Boston, sion is found in it to the glories of that Revand the orator had as yet no gleam of victory olution in honor of which Independence Day with which to encourage his audience, wait- is kept sacred. Poor George III. was allowed ing, doubtless, more impatiently for the tid- to sleep in peace without any recital of his ings expected hourly than for any studied sins; and probably for the first time in any outburst of declamation. Moreover, if there of the eighty-seven Fourth of July orations is one man in America who represents the which have been delivered in Boston, no meneducated unpolitical class more especially tion is made of Bunker's Hill, or of the tea than any other, it is, perhaps, Oliver Wen- which was thrown into the waters of the

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Charles River, in sight, by the way, of the land. "There are those," he remarks, "who windows of Dr. Holmes's house. The present has obscured the past, and with General Lee encamped at Gettysburg it was not the time for idle glorifications of American magnitude and prowess!

The whole oration deals with the war, and the war alone. Its one cause Dr. Holmes acknowledges to have been the institution of slavery. The antagonism," he says, "of the two sections of the Union was not the work of this or that enthusiast or fanatic. It

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profess to fear that our Government is becoming a mere irresponsible tyranny. If there are any who really believe that our present for himself and family, that a coup d'état is chief magistrate means to found a dynasty in preparation by which he is to become Abraham, Dei gratia Rex, they cannot have duly pondered his letter of the 12th of June, in which he unbosoms himself with the simplicity of a rustic lover called upon by an anxious parent to explain his intentions... An army its political privileges, and the idea of a desof legislators is not very likely to throw away was the consequence of a movement in mass potism resting on an open ballot-box is, like of two different forms of civilization in differ- that of Bunker Hill Monument, built on the ent directions, and the men to whom it was waves of Boston Harbor." With regard to attributed were only those who represented this country, we need hardly say that Dr. it most completely, or who talked longest and Holmes speaks severely, rather, we must adloudest about it." On the other hand, he mit as any one who knows his kindly nature makes no attempt to represent the war as a His real complaint he puts fairly enough. would suppose in reproach than in anger. crusade undertaken on behalf of the negro. We had, no doubt, reckoned very generally "It was waged," he admits, "primarily, on the sympathy of England, at least, in a and is waged to this moment, for the preser-strife which, whatever pretexts were alleged vation of our national existence." The chain as to its cause, arrayed upon one side the of argument which runs through his discourse supporters of an institution she was supposed is that the principle of self-government in- to hate in earnest, and on the other its assailvolves ipso facto the right of free discussion and free political action; that the existence of free discussion and action brought on the ""irresistible conflict" between slavery and freedom; and that, therefore, in striving to preserve the Union the North vindicates a principle fatal to the existence of slavery. "What is meant," he truly remarks, " by self-government, is that a man shall make his However, we could pardon much more unconvictions of what is right and expedient kind things than Dr. Holmes has said of us regulate the community, so far as his frac-on account of the manly, stirring, Englishtional share of the Government extends. If like patriotism which marks every page of one has come to the conclusion, be it right or his address. We talk of American sentiwrong, that any particular institution or ment as high-flown and stilted. Let an Englishman consider candidly what our own popstatute is a violation of the sovereign law of ular passion would be if the integrity of our God, it is to be expected that he will choose country were assailed. Should we think lanto be represented by those who share his be-guage like this exaggerated in the hour of lief, and who will, in their wider sphere, do England's peril? By those wounds of livall they legitimately can to get rid of the ing heroes, by those graves of fallen martyrs, wrong in which they find themselves and their by the corpses of your children, and the constituents involved. To prevent opinion claims of your children's children yet unfrom organizing itself under political forms born, in the name of outraged honor, in the interest of violated sovereignty, for the life may be very desirable, but it is not according of an imperilled nation, for the sake of men to the theory or practice of self-government." everywhere, and of our common humanity, This is all that Dr. Holmes claims for the for the glory of God and the advancement war with reference to slavery, and doubtless of his kingdom on earth, your country calls he might have claimed even more with jus-upon you to stand by her through good retice. port and through evil report, in triumph and It is curious to see how an educated Amer- in defent." Words such as these would seem can regards the alleged infractions of his lib-natural enough applied to England, and what erty of which we have heard so much in Eng- England is to us the Union is to an American.

When, however, he tells us further, "That three bending statues cover up that gilded seat, which, in spite of the time-hallowed usurpations and consecrated wrongs so long associated with its history, is still vencrated as the throne,-one of ese supports is the pensioned Church, the second is the purchased army, the third is the long suffering people," we are reminded unpleasantly

of Mr. Jefferson Brick.

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