and of the morrow—of his flank            same time on the atmosphere
and of his rear—he has to                     and on the temper of your men;
calculate at the same time the              and all these elements, so
state of the weather and the                 various and so diverse, which are
moral qualities of men; and                   ceaselessly changing and
all those elements that are                    renewed, you must combine in
perpetually changing he has to             the midst of cold, heat, hunger,
combine, sometimes under                    bullets.
overwhelming heat, sometimes under              .       .         .       .
overpowering cold—oftentimes
in famine, and frequently
amidst the roar of artillery.
Behind all these circumstances
there is ever present the image
of his country, and the dreadful               . . Farther off, and behind
alternative whether that                          them, is the spectacle of your
country is to welcome him with               country, with laurel or with
laurel or with cypress. Yet                      cypress. But all these images
those images he must dismiss                and ideas must be banished and
from his mind, for the general                 set aside, for you must think,
must not only think, but think                  and think quickly—one minute
with the rapidity of lightning;                   too much, and the fairest
for on a moment more or less                combination has lost its opportunity,
depends the fate of the most                  and instead of glory, it is
beautiful combination—and a                 shame which awaits you. All
moment more or less is a question         this undoubtedly is compatible
of glory or of shame.                               with mediocrity, like every
Unquestionably, sir, all this                     other profession: one can also
may he done in an ordinary                    be a middling poet, a middling
manner, by an ordinary man,                 orator, a middling author; but
as every day of our lives we                   this done with genius is
see that ordinary men may be                sublime.     .          .          .
successful Ministers of State,
successful authors, and successful
speakers—but to do all this
with genius is sublime. To be
able to think with vigour, with                  . . To think in the quiet of
depth, and with clearness in the            one's cabinet, clearly, strongly,
recesses of the Cabinet,is a great         nobly, this undoubtedly is
intellectual demonstration; but               great; but to think as clearly,
to think with equal vigour,                      as strongly, as nobly, in the
clearness, and depth amidst                  midst of carnage and fire, is the
the noise of bullets, appears to              most perfect exercise of the
me the loftiest exercise and the             human faculties.—M. THIERS
most complete triumph of human          ON THE MARSHAL GOUVION DE
faculties."—MR. DISRAELI                    ST. CYR, 1829, quoted in the
ON THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON,        'Morning Chronicle' of July 1,
1852.                                                     1848.

         NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

The Sittings in Chancery commenced on the 2nd ult.,
at Westminster Hall. When the business of the day
before the Lord Chancellor was finished, Mr. Malins, at
the request of the bar, asked his lordship whether he
would permit the sittings of the two first terms of the
year to be held at Lincoln's Inn. The Lord Chancellor
replied, that he held it impolitic to separate the two
branches of the profession. His habits led him to look
with veneration on the Hall at Westminster; the Lords
Justices thought with him, that the sittings had better
be held at Westminster; and he believed that on this
subject the bar was much divided. Some expressions of
dissent took place; and Mr. Malins said that there
were few questions on which the bar was so unanimous.
Mr. Campbell, Mr. Roundell Palmer, and others,
supported Mr. Malins; and at length, apparently out of
consideration for the convenience of solicitors, the Lord
Chancellor agreed to adjourn the sittings to Lincoln's
Inn for the present term.

George Anderson, well known as a clown at the
theatres, committed Suicide, on the 31st ult., by
throwing himself from a second-floor window in Fetter-
lane. So determined was he upon self-destruction, that,
previous to his leaping from the window, he called to a
woman that was underneath to move away as speedily
as possible; he then fell headforemost upon the pavement.
Upon being taken up, it was found that he had
sustained a considerable fracture of the skull, and other
extensive injuries, and he died almost immediately.
The poor man had for a long time been afflicted with
consumption, and was much embarrassed.

A case, exhibiting the effects of frequenting Betting-
Offices, occurred at the Middlesex Quarter Sessions on
the 1st inst. Maurice Barnett, a respectable-looking
lad, sixteen years of age, was indicted for having stolen
£6. 10s., belonging to Henry Appleyard, his master.
He pleaded guilty. His counsel stated that he was in
the employ of the prosecutor, a news-agent in Duke-
street, Adelphi, as errand boy. He was sent out with a
cheque for £10., out of which he was to pay away £3. 10s.
He did so, and afterwards was induced to go to a
betting-office, where, after some hesitation, he backed
a horse for 3s., taking that sum out of his master's
money. He lost; and then he made another bet for 2s.,
to pay back, if successful, the money he had helped
himself to. He lost again; and, being afraid to return
to his master, he resolved to leave the country, and
went to Liverpool, and engaged a passage to New
Orleans, for which he paid £3. 10s. He was on board
the vessel four days, when, from remorse, he came
ashore and gave himself up to the police for stealing his
master's money. By means of the electric telegraph
the Liverpool police ascertained that his story was true,
and he was brought in custody to London. From
Liverpool he wrote a letter to his parents, which he,
the learned conusel, would hand up to the Court for
perusal, in the hope that his lordship might be induced
to treat the case leniently. The prosecutor would
recommend the prisoner to mercy, and was kind enough
to say that he would again take him into his service.
After commenting on the nature of the case, the
Assistant Judge sentenced the prisoner to be kept in
solitary confinement for ten days, at the expiration of
which he would be given up to his master.

A disgraceful scene of Wrecking has occurred at
Shields. The Marie Elizabeth, of Christiana, with a
general cargo, said to be worth £100,000., went ashore,
and soon began to break up; while the brave pilots
were risking their lives to save the crew, a lawless mob
revelled in drunkenness—knocking in the heads of
casks of wine and spirits that came to land, and drinking
the liquor out of boots, sou'-westers, &c, and also
plundering the bales and boxes washed up by the sea.
Some of the wretches were carried away in carts to the
workhouse, insensible; while others were arrested by
the police, and have since been committed to prison.

The premises of Messrs. Whittaker and Co., the
booksellers in Ave Maria Lane, were Robbed on Sunday, the
7th inst. During the Sunday there is no person in the
range of four houses constituting the establishment, the
porter or watchman being allowed to go home on the
Saturday night, and taking the keys with him. This
man, John Cooper, gave an alarm on Sunday evening
that the place had been robbed: he said he discovered
an outer door open as he was passing to go to church.
On inspection it was seen that the robbers had broken
open all desks and other places where money was likely
to be deposited; a large amount in coin and small notes
was carried off, and also the contents of a plate-chest,
valued at £200. Saturday was "magazine-day," and a
large sum was received by the firm at too late an hour
to pay it into the bank: the surmise immediately arose
that the thieves knew this. Cooper pointed out to the
police a window with weak fastenings, where the robbers
had probably entered: the fastenings certainly were
weak, but there was no appearance of weakness on the
outside to attract a burglar's notice. The result of the
inquiries by the firm and the officers was the arrest of
Cooper. He was brought before Alderman Carden, at
the Guildhall Police Office. Mr. Hood, a partner in the
firm of Whittaker and Co., stated that Cooper had been
in their service fourteen years, and had hitherto been
highly esteemed for honesty. In examining the
premises, Mr. Hood made an important discovery. He
found that, before any attempt was made upon the iron
safe, his own private door had been forced open and the
key of the safe taken from a concealed drawer, of which
not more than two or three persons in the establishment
could have been aware; the key was replaced after the
safe had been opened. From these facts he was induced
to suspect some one in his employ. Two gentlemen,
named Hughes, who live next door to Whittakers', stated
that they saw Cooper leave the premises about eleven
o'clock on Sunday morning. Cooper had stated to the
police that he had not been there between nine o'clock
on Saturday night and six o'clock on Sunday evening.
No trace of the property was found on the prisoner or at
his lodgings. He was remanded.

A dreadful case of Destitution was disclosed at the
Thames Police Court, on the 8th inst. A young man