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No. 1497
MIRAMAR THE OLD HOME OF
MAXIMILIAN,
I have a task before me that I hardly know how to begin, or low satisfactorily to myself, to execute. Words, in spite of their power, are, afterall, wank to represont certain objects, certain effects and combi- uations, and the more wu are delighted with What we seo before us, the loss able, de we feel, by more words, to impart to others Like a sense of what we ouvelves bathing like a sense
palpable
reality.
The attempt must be made, however, and Tit perhaps, a slight cucouragement to know that, daß- cient as the account may scen to me who have looked on the scenes themselves, iny roaders, not having had this advantage will not be aware of the full amount of the de-
ficiency.
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THE CHINA MAIL.
A PEEP AT "LIFE" IN FRANCE. - The writer of Echoes from the Continen a London contemporary gives the fol lowing bit of social history in the Parisiar work:-
wre
[No. 1497-MARCH 21, 1868.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CULORATIONS IN GREENLAND.-A letter 19 Athenian, signed "Edward Whym
states that the Greenland exploration
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had been dolayol af Jakobsliarn by
a
ro epidemic, and so lost the best of the
ner; and thirphice entirely
pot
Chyasos of
ice, which destroy-
hair slegos. Some ch
curious facts were nt. The
writer alludes to the evidences
be great antiquity of the great glacier, thum adds the following eurious and ortalet information Old as it is, in- atably ancient, we aunot say primoval, 3 almost site by side a fossil forest is nd, embracing numerous species, not of un-drifted learos, watiderers from other Sules, as
as some have conjectured, but ssed in beds to such a depth as to render Such a farest is found in latitude 70 dug, and the species involve anch climatic differ
it, but the Arelduko was pressing, and at last he was in possession of the work,
In every room are objects of art of various sorts, and of great worth. On the walls are
know that the French social lovellers, pictures of the different schools; on the ne se sentent pas de joie, at the mésuilland tables are caskets inlaid with gons intag and misadventure of the Marquis d'Orvault, los austinable price; and vazak aud alius Marquis de Maubreuil, who marrist tazzi, sune unique of their kind, stund on
in his old
the daughter of a cabmar pedestals so that ble eye, in the hurrie med Schumacher because she had con vist, lets bowildered, and hardly knows on trived to amnes a large fortune in the demi- what object to dwell with most attention made under the roms de juic of Alion Near the bed room is a ali oratory, and Bruyère, not precisely in selling penades a cuktan window civiles this little suoctum wail is built of cedar, which the Archduko another margulaato belonging also to h from the chapel, the wood of the altar, of times. The Marquis de Maibrouil, wh kolately changed his name forthat of d'Orvaul brought himself froin Lebanon. The room of family, was for a very long time in enfa the per interested me greatly. It down yesterday, the built like-lle cabin of the ship he first cur-party of, the Faubourg; and as liis antece-gold cnimug from sich an impure soures, it wertainty that they grew on the spot
dents have been indre or less incorrectly re: Really, this use is full of surprises; for, maudei a corvette, and was literally calated by the preas of France and England whon asking of the Marchioness d'Or mind with objects which one would like to I fancy I shall in over-weary, my renders spend hours in looking at. There were, on by letting thien know the truth about that vault, the Inperial Procureur said that she sure as to presinde the idea that this vast the walls, portraits of friends, little photo-accidental existence which seems to belonged, for she was bringing up a boy born at land. The collections from this place will not so black as she lind buen represent mass of snow and ice always covered the graphs of persons or picture, prit,ut only to Retion--uny, to titais sort of fiction Bucharest, whose birth is a mystery, but presently speak for themselves. Thes you and put into, amall frames, sen-pic, in which the wildest imagination vice with who is to inherit the name,
thousand odds and ends which are so
the grossest absurdity. indicative of a man's tastes, and which toll One who knew so plainly what a man is. the Emperor well bas-tolt me that to every object belonged some story. Many of the things were presente and wars conscted with different voyages. To this was attached, and to that object also.
to
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e
arms ver
It is net from that I have taken cho sincerely hopen that it is all the wys-v
of the too famous
If
・ment. There were no signs of winter to be whole was intimately lund up with however, the entry of the Bours celebre, it is because it forcibly illustrates
The the
And just in this
snine year
ho had
Ilave spoken at length of that conse
the list of gobl prevailing, in almost all classes in Frases. Never before has the golden calf had such a pedestal there ; it is oven higher than Monsieur Chauvin.
FISHER PERMATED
sky was clear, as it always is when the Bora his been blowing, and the saat sparkled on the travelets of the bay, and abono in full snow-white suits of the skills moving shout on the blue Adriatic. The road to Miramar Jends along the shore, The bread expause of sea was on our loft, and on the right use the step slope, with
of the Marquis de Maurenil d'Orvault. ti walls and terraces, and habitations, large
the biographical
will inherit of him. Well, the and mall, scattered everywhere on the hill
marquis, but from judicial documents. Interiona bay side. Boing Sunday, groups of villagera
1811 he was major of ovals, and Kuight Court has allowed forty pounds a pear to were idling before the honiacs, enjoying the
of the Imperial Legion of Honour. He had the Schumachers privilege of doing nothing, which those
a boundless admiration for not, who tell the whole week is really ni enjoy
hocanso on bong
Paris in the seen, and yet above us, where the ridge of
career. and lis nossergor hills ended, and the plain usar Valuesina room, which was the archduke's own, you such a fit of royalist enthusiasm, that he began, every object was buried beneath the had striking evidenons--for it was shown in galloped in the 4. Desys Gate to watume
of snow, and all lay numbed and feast-bound, little things of his refined taste. It caused the sons of Saint Louis, after having tied his cruss the Legion of Honour to the This
knowledge heightened, perhaps,
tho
painful sensation to stand there amid lin
tail of his horse. It seems that the onthu BenSC of enjoyment.
books nud trifles just as he had left them, instic St became more and more recrudes It takes at most three-quenters, of
of an to look on that fairy like creation growing cont, because he was the very man, who kour to drive to Miramar. You enter the up out of the sea, to gazo over those call passed a rope round the neck cf thio state grounds by a lodge, and a well-kept rond bite waters where he had often sailed so of
of Napoleon on the top of the column it leads upward to the spot where the castle happily, and to think how all had cuded. the Place Vendome in order to pull it stands. The site is a rocky hillock, co- That he who had entled the whole kuto
down. jesting a little promontary-into the sea existence, who bark planned the walks, the In the same year 1814, he obtained M. de The
epot was formerly
ed Cruise was five bidea, wild at sinus promont be lying a el viena a fino a mano, sed int or epot Grignano, and its present name was given should tlist it by him to whom the sea was ever such a few nules out on that very sea, not used with a mission ranch commented apoi source of delight-its richly endowed bat merly, however, to scud across the beat the time. The Queen of Westphalis was custoin of sitting at the table to unfortunate postessor. Miramar is Spanish, his own Miramar, but dried up, munimy and means "Behold the real" And from like, and swatlied, and embalmed and Englund-aid when gho was crossing the of Scotland. She was shocked to ere the here it is truly a beautiful sight. The land his chest siz ballet-holes from his excation takes a pleasing form, and carving rounders. His near neighbourhood now to the shuts tu and forms a quiet bay, and stretch-home that was so dear to him, his returning ing away in the distance in a long line of thus at last, gave to the place a strangely grey upland, at last gradually ears the painful interest." level of the aca, and yonder, in the furthest The rooms on the first flour are of great distanse, where the shore seems to termi-magnificonce. The ceilings are all of differ nate, white walls are seen and what seement wonds inlaid and embossed, and the to be remains of buildings. But it is too wainscoting is in the same style, and labor
may be a fort of a monastery on that farthest point of land habitations they are of some sort, and that fout gives an interest to the scene.
The spot you see is Aquileja, once the first town in Italy after Rome Attila and his hordes destroyed it, and its inhabitants flowing from the barbarian invaders, took refage on those insignificant islande, which 1ster hecause Venice.
was
to then en route to exilo- that is to say
Fontainebleau Forest, Maubreuil seized upon hor luggage, and appropriated to him self a bag full of gold, and the Princess's diunouds. Evidently, it was not exactly the mission confided to him, for he was ar raigued, in
in April, 1817; before the Criminal Court of Douai, and sentescod to five years imprisonment for that robbery. During his trial, he exclaimed As if I bad not been safortunato to pass a rope round
y article of furniture is in appropriate taste. These rooms the Emperor haul never seen in
in their presunt state, as they were only completed
in his absence. Unt not a chair was made or even placed without his knowledge or order: the minutert arrangements were watched over and directed by himself, As the work progressed, photographs of the furnitum and the rooms were sent him to Mexico, and every mouth
photographs of and ter- the garden, the walks, parterres, races were forwarded to him also. Although in Mexico, in thought he was constantly in firema And no one who sus this real in the cation of his taste and fancy can wonder it
In front of the chief entrance
to the distle is a covered walk of trellis work with roses, and ivy and wild vine. The roof and sides of this walk form a frame to the Claude-like picture.
your right
Balice.
old
14
Emge
"The
rial family, with trophies of the chase, with handsome frescoss, and elaborately wrought cabinets. On either side of this ball are doors leading into the diffrent roonis. The library is a delightful place. At one end on
estale of 1
marble are
busts in Curraca of Dante and Goetlie, and at the other of Shawspeare and Hower. On the tables were lying about innumerable works
great worth old
in carvel
home.
CURIOUS. FAUTS FROM HISTORY,
The Chevalier D'Aubigné, who fled to England during the French revolution of 1798, and for a while lived there is a very straightened manner, nocumtilated a for- time of eighty sumud frames by touching the English fashionstiles how to mix salid.
le visited his patrons in a carriago, attend-
by a servant.
drink, after dinner was user, was introdu- eed by Margret Atheling, the Saxon Quee
Scottish gentlenen rising from the tablo befors grace could be said, and offered a cup of choice wine to all who would remain
Fish did not became a popular article of diat Crevce, until a a comparatively
Brute period, and there was a society against cruelty to fish," by abstaining from de vouring what was alleged to make the par- takar ferocious and ithamat. With Ro mans the mullet was prized, above all other
It was
cross of houer to the tail of my horse, I am pounds in. weight, and mich a fish was worth focused of oriminal deela 1 ac three hundred dollars. It was cooked on cepted the inissiou to kill the Emperor, but the table for the bevelt and pleasure of the I did it
it only save his own life and the livos
guosta. Tarbot were next highest in esti- of the members of
of his family. The Bour
our nation, and occasionally offending staves, bous are assassins? At the next day's were thrown into the pond to feed them. sitting Maubreuil also declared that Prince The older Romans paid special honor to Talleyrand bad uffered him an income of agriculture, as did the jers. Their com 8000, and the title of duke if he well ful-was afamped with emblems in conection filled homicidal mission.
The Greeks refreshed the threewith cionths of their ploughing oven with wing, Charles IX exempted from serast for debt all persons engaged in the entiration of the staple articles of grie
of agriculture.
bie
It is only just to say that the diamonds of the Queen of Westphalis were miracu- lously fished out of the Reine; a piscator brought out at the end of his rod two dia- mond combs..
Усата.
Celebrated with mush, pump at the eve, welcomed it with enthusiasm.
It is recorded that Anthony once reward. surrounded by the nobility, was present et ad his cook with a gift of a city, for having the famoral outermony. Suddenly Mubreuil prepared a repart which elicited the enco comes forward,
in presence of all, un-nimins of Cleopatra.
der the eyes the King, violently strisea An English Dean named Nowell, who) at the face of Prince Talleyrand, and fells fourished in the turbulent reign of Queen him to the gropontist, who never lost his ale: He was out fishing with a battio of Mury, was the accidental inventor of bottlerl The sé Prom such a fisticul
who intelligence reached him that his life. beverage at his side,
auchia
drawn
1 cars,
Cortez went to Mexico in senrch of gold, exquisitely laid-out garden, with neat beds should be so. From the very first momeist As to Maubreuil, he contrived to escape but the first discovery he made was of cho and Greek irouzo Blatues, anil, oretgreen: that he came here he was surchanted with from his prigaud, where his lived several it, but the generous beverage was considered
БОП after his eentonce, andcolate. The souks were the first to
adopt bushes, and broad trim walks and rustling waterfalls, and before you is a dip in the spot, and resolve to build here from his
a sort of wicked luxury for them, and they ground and your eye ranges over the broad
On the 21st of January, 1827, the auni-wore warned against it. And the way his became acquainted will
moralisis expanse of sun, following instinctively that the spot was as follows. He was
line of above, which as I'egid,, after, sy Mirolley was, of willing as fond, just veranry of Louis the Sixteenth's death was ongoily condemned it. The Spanish, hoir.
alone, and bouf St, Denia.. The whals Conr sweeping round so as to form a netty bay gouerally he took a fishingboat-bryozza loses itself in the distance. You stand and
as they are hero called-for his excursions gaze, arolosh to quit the phice and to He was ont une day when a heavy squall enter the unsion..
came on. It was Bora, and there Even here, at the very ortrance, are evi- little use in actanpting to wrestle with the dences of the consuminte taste which guided giant, ho inen who wore in the boat told every arrangement.
The lamp hanging the archduke it would be avisable to stay over head, the bronze handles to the door, where they wore a shelter
-"sbeltered nook, where each thing display artistic feeling and ole- the wind did not affect them." This was the
vestibule in
in otimented with little bay just beyind the spot where the protraits of the ancestors of the castle stands. The suure rises here, and is The Marquis of Maubreuil was sentenced was in dangor. He threw down his fishing
no scooped ant that a vessel lying below, ou for that new offence to five years' imprison-rod, the water world not feel the wind blowing mun, auk placed during ten years under and buried his bottle of sle in the grass tel. Afterwards reclaiming his bottle over her from the land: The archduke did the lion on, and as that gentleman, Deas was so delighted with the creamy
Pulion wateli.
the cork flow out at the touch, and the as he was advised, and landing went to a Tinge
t hut or cottage elese
close by,
sont into the truly of For
of very high lineage, had more than condition of the ale but he took good nuighbourhood for bread and eggs, and a me marquisite and conutship perfectly an- liereafter to be supplied with
the few other uocessaties, as the pour peasant thentic in his pocket, he burigd Manbreuil, sort. had nothing to offer. The w
the little to live
Streius and quietly under a name less historical,
1 springs of water were great- boat reunaued here the night. The arch. is even said that he penel insult they reverenced by some ancient nations. duke strolled about, and the more he saw neurological notice on the Marquis de Acording to the pupular belief of the ivory covers, or of chased metal, illuminat of the spot the more delighted he was with Maubreuil published in Dilos's biography Greeks, every stream, -and
sprin Tho resolve was at once tuker that here in that notice he stated that bo had died in had a resident deity. The Ec ed manuscripts on vellum, intaglios,
-it smail paintings, mosties, And a thousand he would build a
And as he 1856. a cottage,
grateful for the blessings they derived objects of interest and valis. The inkstand wandered upwards from the rocks on the Two years ago the Marquis d'Orvault fell their boloved Nile, threw into it liste is the one used in signing the pence of ahore, which here lie about in wild in with Alice In Bruyère, née Schumacher, sugar and fruit, as hunkofotings. The
just beautiful vase is here Сигаро
picturesque confusion, be found a ruso in once one of the queens of the demi monde, Persinus and Cappadocians cuised altari this was a prescut from the Pope: On the full blous. The ciscumstance, trifling but still of captivating ouers, though beside stremins, and paid adoration to tha wall of
of the library I read the word Me it was, delighted him, and he decided that, past thirty, and very rish, pardess, les Gol whose existence was evident by the mento Verona," Of course what they allod- on that spot where he chanced upon the marché. The marquis, an octogenarian, crystal clement. The comicon people of the building should be erecteil. I had but a very meagre pittance to live upon Rome drank to sxesas of water, both hot learned their weaning. It is this; the battle of Solferino, by which Lombardly was lost immediately after the work was lugun extacy at the iden of becoming are marter as a stimulant. to Austria, was a source of bitterest grief The small villa on the rocky premtory, chioness. They were married. In the cont The breakfast of a Gresk soldier, takon' to the Archduke, As it caused him so much opposite the larger palace, is the house the tract settling their financial affairs, portions at dawn of day, consisted of bread soaked in distress, to had the above words inscribed archonke then built. But he soon found it and so forth, the marquis is said to bring wine Greek patricians sat down daily to where they would constantly be before him, was too sail, al then fixed the site for a First, an income of 1098, paid to him by but one solid meal; soldiers and plebians so that should he be wilappy, and be in now building where Miramar now standa. bis relations, Secondly, a peusion of 100%, partonk of two. They were nooounted p clined to complain, the sight of those words It was ten-years in progress, and as the cost which he was receiving from the inperur enfiarly ovarse people who consumed three. might remind him be had been still more of erection was thus spread over a large spaco Napoleon II, and was paid to bi by the The Romans in this respect were similar unhappy, and that his present sorrow was of the, the expense in no one year was Home Seiretary of Stato.
to the Greeks. was a
reason for incurring
The Constitutiinitel has denied that the debt.
In Rome, milk was used as a ensmatic, Th
beverage
F his imperial Majesty. The authentic docu- required five hundred asses to supply the
Cof
orinio.
fine
ed to was unйɛown to me, and only later I Tine week the ground was bought; and in his old ago,Alice la Bruyère was in and coll. The former toy drank in win
Tie
not could not be, comparable to what u ouerony is built in the Norusan style marquis was receiving such a pension from Fund for instis as well as a
had unpo angored. It would not be bail-
to learn not and battleinents. The material used is a
Turopa
strength of Francis I. of France. of milk, Batter was not own
either in Greece or Kams until comparatively late periods. The Grecks received it from Asia, and the Romans were taught its ase by the Genuan matrons.
if each of us were to have a "Me of architecture, with towers, and turrent just quoted shows that the inspired bath and toilet varea of the Empress Pop nto Verona bofore ua 59 as to? to give way to despondency or discontent, while limestone brought from Iscris, and prit has been mystined. But the very pea. Some dozen or two of the same and
fact of such a a geusion could have been cons was comfortalte, cosy, habitable. The bou- den and look towards the sea, furus
In spite of the wealth displayed, the run this whiteness when you stand in the gas sort of rehabilitation in favour of were kept to maintain the decaying doir of the Enpresa was like a little nest, beautiful effect in its contrust to the dark the receiver, had be put dabbled in the Be Warin, and sang, and pretty in ite at blue of the water. The sea is so deep here most sordidi lucro after his mariago. rangements. The tapestry al forniture that a man of war might approach almost The how couple took splendid apart were of thick Very light he silk, with close to Win ensile walls. I strolled aboutments in che the most fashionable spots of largo
white flowers worked . អirt It. Hote the garden for hours, enjoying the verdure Paris. They bad carriages elegantly sp- were portraits of different neurer relations: and the pleasant sea breeze. Bright as the pointed, English horses, & mumeroas celino Eggs filled with salt used to be eaten by of the Emperor of Austria and of the Eur-day was, and thoughts clung to me, and of servents, a box at the Opera, and su curions mailens, after a winle stay's fasting prem, of the Archdukess Sophia, and will stil cling to my raunbranes of forth; but one of the most favourite ocen on St. Agnes eve, in the belief that in the others. The most charming portrait of the Miramar. Morning Herald.
pations of the marquis was the liquidation after treams of the maid for future Inishaud Empress Elizabeth that I have yet seen is
in her pro- would be revealed to her.
of
here, it is very like, as she was soon after
of his wife's fortune still unpaid, party deeds some notes
bor marriage, and is just aufficiently idealis THE DRAGON TREE-The glant specimen he took procoelings against the dobles. ed without belig too much so. It is ovi of the Drives Drace, or Dragon troo, Hut the judges dusuited him from motives A MAN. SULLING HIS WIFE.-A rathor dout there was no intention of alding to growing at Orotava, in the island of Tene-dishonouring to lian-they found that the extraordinary circumstance has just trau
#_ac her beauty the idealisation is merely that rille, was destroyed during the autumn of bills had not been accepted for a mord non-spired in Blackburn. On Saturday after which would arise from intense admiration,
don, 1967 by a gale of wind. It was Sicat brought sideration.
1
noon, a mechanic, named Thomas Harlaud, mid us the painter saw her with ita admin into general notice by Humboldt some sixty About tw months
and his wife to another we, named Lo this cabman, HO ing eyes, so he has given that face ngam, years ago, and was computed by him to be Saluumacher, forced his way to the dining-mas, for the sum of 206,5 and, all parties believing that as he has portrayed it as it 6000 years old. It had, however, heon pre-room of the marquis, who was enjoying the being agreeable to the bargain, Mrs Har
was illumined as with a halo. Iu viomaly unticed in 1795 by Sir George breakfast of a sybarite, in company with the land has been transferred to har now
hu all portraits, to be good for any Staunton, and in 1771 by 1. O Borda, o marchiontas, who recognised her good faband. The following agreement has been slid t painted. The embel- Frenchatan, whose drawing of the munstrunis tuer. You are rich, very rich, and your drawn-tip and signed by the partics: the painter's parts and the work on the hold
boldt. In July 1819 & storm deprived it of and getting very old withal Monsieur le certify tu all whom may concern that I, Canvas should be the mere fedex of the ob part of ite etown, and a large and good Eng. quis onglit to uske us a small alimony, as Harlan, of Blacklit, da reliu-
it WAR published after i we could finish our days in peace and
after its that we
gnish my Gonjugal rights to my wife, enough
this lovely picture was not the work mutilation Webb,
Sazal Ellen Barland, in favour of Henry:
gay, ahoul! Ja vuconscions AS bsequently published by Him- poor mother and salt are poor, very foos," Mckburn, Samury 1, 1808 -Piso
all
ject as it lives in his mind. Strangely a engraving in his splendid work on When I was only £fteen good mother Lonas, for the suui of 1 sterling-As wit-
of a portrait painter, but of a cavalry of the Nuteral fistory of the Castries, de-
neas unr hands, do. Thomas Harland Swarrick." Harland has since announce thut ko will not be auswerable for any debts his late wife may contract.-Black- bury Standard.
Be saw the Express on some public scribes it and gives its measurements, and and you sent me away from home, turned occasion, and went home carrying with him it has since afforded a theme for the pen of nie into the streets morcilessly; and it Witnesses-Philip Thomas and George avory feature in his memory. The result almost every traveller who has visited Oro-have not tallen into the most abject misery was the work I now speak of. The then tava. Its destruction during the gale of it was no fault of yours. Begona." Archduke heard of the neceful portrait, last autumn was complute-Pall Mall Go Cabau Schumacher, a native of Luxem- And paid the oficer a visit. He was so de tetto,
burg, shed his daughter and son-in-law to
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