MEMOIRS OF MONSIEUR CLAUDE, Chief of Police under the Second Empire.

TRANSLATED BY MARY NBAL SHERWOOD. CHaPIER VII. THE END OF A REIGN. FROM Paris to Japan, from Japan to Rome, the most thankless position for a French citizen i 3 that of a public functionary. Our Administration never guarantees the future of either the most important or the humblest of its representa "The embassador ond the Guard Cliam fetre must be alike endowed with an elasticUy of temperament which cannot be Sd under the successive changes of o„r Government. I had been it Paw only two months when the Revolution of February, 1848, bur 9 t out. I had accepted joy position there for the sake of a certain kind of rest. For twenty years I had toiled at my clerk's desk, and I quit my civil office, when all at once came the Revolution aud changed the aspect of 1 "no' Government looked upon my past services as crimes, because my. duty had compelled me to attack and punish, under Louis Philippe, parsons who under the new Republic became all at once heroes. It was to the February Revolution that I owe a new existence, which I certainly did ' not seek, a celebrity which I have never for the same Revolution I should never have known the greatest criminals of the Second Empire; I should never have played any part in dramas which were im perfectly understood, even by those persons who carefully attended the trials. I had dreamed, on leaving the Palace, of a comparatively quiet life, passed in the quiet routine of my duties, and really en loyed my dolctfar niente. __ Two days after the proclamation of the Republic, I saw a citizen named D enter my office. In the name of the Republic and of his Prefect of Police—who was no longer my neighbour of Passy—Citizen D—— exhibited an order from Citizen Canssidiere calling on me to yield my place in twenty-four hours to the bearer of this missive. The order was perfectly regolar, and was countersigned by one of the ministers of the new Republic. I bowed low to my successor. He had not the courtesy to await my departure hefore he established himself in my oflice, but. quietly remarked that it was not ' worth while for me to move any of my fur niture, as of course it belonged to the administration. Before I left, I recommended to my successor my secretary, who was placed in quite as embarrassing position as myself by the Republic. But Citizen D answered roughly : - •' We intend to clear out the whole place; we wish nothing from the tyrant." "Not even the furniture !'' I answeied, with a low bow. ' ' I could not refrain from making this reply : to him who had thus dispossed me. i "Because I telonged to the administra tive hierachy of a government whose adver saries did not believe the end to be so , near,my career was ended I" I was dismissed from duties which I had ' faithfully fulfilled, only because the hoar ; . of doom had not sounded for my chiet. I was oondemned because Providence , ■i had set its seal of reprobation upon a Royal , iamily which it had seamed to have taken under Its protection. There are times whan, for individuals as well as for societies, ; all is. ruin—when the most careful provi- ; sions of human wisdom are utterly set at naught. ... It was clear to every one, in 1847, that we had reached an epoch which the omni ' poteni bourgeoisie would find most terrible, if I had not lived among a round of ab sorbing duties, which prevented me from following political events, I should have foreseen the Eocial convulsion which swept m After the Princess Adelaide's death, the King Became, only- the shadow of his foimerself. ■ ~ , , "..''. The terrible affliction of his son s death, the warning he then received, wa3 repeated ; in the death of his sister. Alone on nis throne, surrounded by ambitions men, ' whose interest it was to upset it, Louis Philippe began to realise the danger wiln whichhe was threatened from the people, and also the fact that it was useless to ' expect from the salons of the aristocracy and the financiers the assistance upon which, he had depended. , : „ - Active in this movement were those par ties' which arelthe regular, growth of each Ptphteen Years', for it seems to mc that evfrylhinl is changed in that space of ; "The poverty of the lower classes, the cor ruption of the npper. the shameful crime of Martin (dv Nord), th- terrible crime of the Due de Praslin, crime everywhere, even on the step? of the throne, was^an .indication, ; in 1857; that the reign of Louis Philippe was drawing to a close. , There were much the same scandals, which with the murder of Victor Noir, and the killing of Troppman, announced the crumbling of the Second Empire. Thrones and crowns are always shattered by similar flashes of lightning, and dissapear in the same convulsions by which they were en geThen, too, is the time that the vanquished are roused to take their revenge, which they do, without, however, reassuring society. The crime of the Due de Praslin Is an ex-ample of this; its consequences were un questionably the fall of the government. This abominable- crime proved that the forgetfulness of nil duties in the upper ranks of society pecessenly destroys its force and prestige. It alss exhibited the sublime virtues of the illustrious victim, the daughter of the' Marshal de Sebwtiani, Uuchesse de Praskin, wife of the tarst Chamberlain to the Duchess of Orleans. I was still head clerk in the criminal court -when the assassination., of ihe Duchess filled all Paris with honor and the chateau with mourning, and awoke the bitterest animosity and party spirit in France. That a peer of France shonld assassinate bis wife was a piece of great good fortune for the Opposition, for the journalists at tached to the " Reform," to the Cor taire," and the " National." The avengers of the massacres of the Rue Transnoman and of Lyons, could never have ventured to hope for so great a scandal-a scandal which would naturally" unite all parties against an order of .thing* which was neither legitimate royalty nor a republic. The crime that dishonored the whole nation was indeed horrible. The investigation which took place at the B6tel Sebastian!, in the Faubourg Siint-Honore. at the inquest held over the mutilated body of Mme. de Praslin, proved, as did the testimony of the physicians, that a long and desperate struggle must have taken place between the Duke and his un fortunate victim. . - . . - The Duke, like the vulgarest of assassins, had taken advantage of his wife's slumbers to'enijsr her sleeping-room. He had drag ged he? from tbe bed—he had struck her with a dogger and with the butt of a pistol, on her head, her arras, and her body. The hands of the victim bore marks of her vain efforts to release herself from the clutches of her murderer. The disorder of her chamber and the blood-bespattered wall left [no doubt as to the terrible scene that must have taken That which excited public opinion almost to frenzy was the fact that this Duke, the - heir of one of the best families In France, found a way through royal clemency of " escaping the punishment he merited. Those who had expected to see the Due ' de Praslin die on the scaffold, were disap pointed when he, condemned by his peers, which in itself was a grief and humiliation to the throne, came into court in an almost dying; condition.1 ... , .■ When he was begged tCjaike a full .con fessionhefellto the ground and that night died in his -pnsOA lue physicians declared that M. de Praslin w*s. s. poisoned. - * - . The' chemical analysis, conducted by ■Orfila, discovered a large Quantity of arsenic ' in the Duke's stomach.' The conclusions of the eminent chemist seera^ouiewhat contradictory, as. the in * sUataueous death of the Due de Praslin . was very different from the slow death of . *i; Lifarge, both of which, Orfila said, were caused by the same poison. Raspail, thepolitical and scientific enemy of prfila; took care to invite attention to this apparent inconsistency. . Un the other side, thei Chamber of Peers vainly said, in their report drawn up in fiecret session, that the Due de Praslin had

judged and condemned himself. The journals replied that justice had been cheated, aod that it was not thus that such a man should have bacn permitted to die, and that if the examination, begun by _the usual judges, had not been transferred to the Chamber of Peers, the murderer would bave died as lie should have done—on the scaffold. , , mv„„ Other journals went still further. They

pretenrM that the Due de Praslin was not dead, »uU that he had been allowed to , escape to Englsnd. , -~. Long after this it was said that the Duke had been seen M London. This report was circulated at the time of the interment, and it was found necessary to employ a large police force to prevent the coffin from bcius broken open in order to prove that it contained no body. This excitemeut on the part of the popu lace proved that a crisis wai imminent. The Laws of Exception, voted by the Chambers, which, while they irritated he Republican party, could protect a titled villain from the punishment due to his offences, could not protect a King against the justice meted out by the people, irom this day forth the Society, Known as that of " The Rights of Man," was re-formed. It enveloped Path in a mysterious network. Cldment Thornaa, a former non commis sioned officer of Cuir.tssiers, undertook to drill the troop; the Citans Bauoe, Charassin, Jules Favrc, and Charles la grange shared with Clement Thomas the task of organizing the Society. The National, having as editor, Armana Marrast, the Reform, edited by Lodru- Rollin, never ceased, under orders from the Revolutionary party, .to ugi'ato the bloody robe of the victim of a peer of VPhen M. Thiers, jealous of M. Guizot, when Lamartine, with his Girondists, prompted an entente originally inspired bj' the banquetsgiven in honour o the Electoral Reform, Armaud Marrast, Ledru-Rollin, and the soldiers of 1830, changed this cmeute into a Revolution, which surprised those woo had prepared it— liners and Udilon BarrDt. .„ , The bourgeoisie, who had been trilled with by its ambitious ministers, were seek ing some way by which (hey could escape the tempestuous sea which threatened to engulf "them. It was Prince Louis Bonaparte, who came from London to re assure the men of order whom he, in his turn, deceived with 'Ihiers and Odilon Barrof Lamartine a*d Cavaignac ! • ■ France had a brief interval of repose, but she paid deirly for this false security, as all the Napoleons have made her pay. They avoided revolutions only to fall into invasions 1 These reflections would be very pre suming ones for a mere police officer, were it not that my position gave me especial opportunities to follow the workings of the secret socities, whose bulletins at the Pre lecture of Police were placed dally under the eyes of M. Delessert, thanks to his secret agent, the too celebrated Lucien de la Even in 1818, the press, which printed the " Rights of Man," also issued bulletins which Lucien de la Hode wrote. These bulletins were in the hands of the police before they we;e received by their adherents. . „ , , After the Revolution of Febiuary, wheu Caussieiera took the Prefecture of Police, he could assure himself that the secret society which had undertaken to dislcdge M. Delessert had been, thanks to lmcien de la Hod 9 a veritable mouse-trap, wherein was more than one anonymous agent of his offi cial predecessor. These details on the reorganization of these societies, in consequence of the assassination of the Duchesse de Praslin, have carried me further than I intended. I must now return to the sad situation in which I was placed by the Revolution of 1848—a surprise to me, as it was to ths majority of Frenchmen, who had neither denied nor asked for it. When I saw myself thus out in the cold, I was as desperate as I was astonished. I had a family, and my famity, like myself, were without bread or shelter. My suc cessor, when he took possession even of my furniture, did not give mo a very good opinion of the frajerual government which planted itself on the rums of the Monarchy. ' . ■'. .... What was I to do in this situation? Where to go, and whom to see? M. Delessert, my chief, was in biding, or had taken flight: and to endeavour to ingra tiate myself with his successor, Citizen Cavssidiere, was to put mjself into the jaws of the wolf. . After much deliberation I had a sudden inspiration. I should probably have thought of the plan sooner if I had not been so entirely upset by the uncivil fashion with which Citizen H ,in the name of the Fraternity, had driven me from my own quarters and taken possession of my title and my furniture. ..■■», I went in search of my protector, M. i L . T He was a3 gay and a9 expansive as I was sad and despairing, ' . , : "At last," hs said, as he shook hands with me enthusiastically—"at last, my dear Claude, we have done with this reißn of corruption. Louis Philippe is down with his Guizot. Yes, they have.had their day. ' The tree was not long in falling, for it was rotten to the cpre." I looked at my friend with consternation feeling much as did Cresar whon assassi nated by Brutus. As I examined M. L witu close at, tendon, I saw that his clothes wete sordid, and" that he who was generally so fresh and careful in bis toilet, had a dirty face and dirtier hands. ~ . , " Ah I" I said, " you are a Revolutionist, I see! You are conspiring*" "Of course, I am," he replied, shrug-: Kln» his shoulders. "Did you'not guess, that wheu I talked to ypu about wander ins over Paris in pursuit of pret-ty faces ? '• Ah 1" I said, reproachfully, " you placed me i» a most dangerous posi "No, no, my dear Claude 1" he replied, very gayly. "Do you remember what I said several months ago, when I asked, you to hide me? I said then that it had not six months to live. When I told you that, this was my belief. I did not tell you that you were to have a position infinitely superior to that which was yours under this illegitimate government which is so fufl'of promises,'' ""Xhea," I answered, without hesitation, "you will, I trust, secure this situation as soon as possible." "Ah I you are in too great a hurry,' he replied. "Let us first finish with the Republic, as we have already done with Koyalty." , . „ " Hunger does not admit of procrastina tion," I siid, impetuously. M.'L— looked serous for we fi'Sttiine, and begged mo to explain myself. I related the manner in which I had been turned out of my office by Citizen T> ___ "Bravo! bravo!" he exclaimed in high delight. And when I had tod him precisely the; plight into which I had. been thrown, he only repeated his 'Bravo \" -i "As,you have been rejected by the Republic," he said, "jou can do nothing but come over to us. France has pulled down a king who will never sit again on his throne. It 13 therefore time for the Prince to reign. You cannot but be with : us tines you are against the Past and the Present. You have, in fact, no choice, you belong to us, you belong to my Prince who, from this day forth, becomes the health, the fortune, aud the future of Fiance." •'But," I answered, "I belong to tbe fallen monarchy, both from gratitude and from duty." . ,■ ;" , '. "And from gratitude and duty you would, I suppose, die oi hunger, you and your family 1 It is on that account that 1 pushed you into the administrative career. I have studied you, and shall soon bs able '. to utilize yoar several aptitudes with in finitely more profit to yourself, than a weak : administration, which never understood you, could pos-ibly do." '•' You are very good,"I answered; "'but ', if it comes to pats, as is now nearly the case, that I have nof a mouth/ul of bread to put .tetween my'.,teeth, what ; then?" "Do you'think, my. dear Claude, that I have not thought of this ever since jou avowed your distress to me? Do you ; believe that I am totally without gratitude ? ', I remember the retreat yiu offered mo at '• fassy, and also that I owe you my life, when b"se rascals there had nearly done Zr ml I'll*" the chances of my Prince become oeSfe ?<- art your family and a gratitude which struggled with my dignity; " I cannotaceept services winch 1 cannot return." .-....■ " How do you know that you cannot re turn them? In any event, Ido not suppose i that jou care to die for a Republic that would have nothing to do, with you ? That j wouldbe too stupid. Do as I say, and by i and by you will have plenty of opportunities \: to acquit yourself of all obligations to me.

Indeed I can offer you such an opportunity even now 1"

"In what way?"

•'By bocoming my secretary." " Becoming the secretary of a conspirator I I, who have been so long attached to the Police Department under the King?' "It strikes me yon are very simole. Permit me to ask if 1 am a conspirator, now that the government under which I acted no longer exists ? Am I not a Revolutionist, if you will, but, at all events, a good Democrat ? In employing you, Ido you a great service. 1 whitewash you " " In the opinion oi others," I replied shaking my head, doubtfully. " But I fear you would blacken mo in my own eyes, siace you have youraelf admitted that the Republic is only a bridge by which to reach the Empire 1" "What of that ?" exclaimed M. L ~, angrily. "Is that any of your affair? Oh, these honest people I" he added, pacing the room in considerable excitement. They would like to make society in their image, as if a corrupt society like ours did not ask and expect to be deceived ! Well, then, I will not "employ [yoa in my corres pondence with my ladies ; and let me assure you you will find your duties no sinecure." Ultimately I became oi neoessity, and under the direction and influence of the Mend of PriDco Bonaparte, an agent, in spite of myself, of the Bonapartiat party.

CHAPTEK VIII,

TUB COUP D'ETAT AND MY VICTIMS,

I Was taken in the Napolonic net. Alas 1 I was not the only one in tbe sinae position just at this time. Strangely enough the very men whom I as a Commi? saire of Police had been obliged to arrest, were the very ones who assisted to makeme a respon sible agent for the crime of December.

Alas ! I wa» but an humble instrument of the Law violated by ray chiefs. The Legitimists—the Orleanists—who ex piated their errors in the prison at Mazie, were much more responsible than I for that dime, since it wis they who aided Prince Bonap&rte to enter the Elj?se"e. It was by the merest accident, as I said in the beginning of these Memoirs, that my career was not ended amid" these politicd quicksands.

It was M. Thiera who goaranteed my future, for M. D could never have aided me against the animosity and rancor of these Corsican?.

if I was participate in this state crime, I wassounconsoiously. The really guiltyparties in the coup d'etat were the accomplices who demolished, bit by bit, the edifice of 1843; who with the Prince President undertook to kill tit^e Republic. M was tbe first to open my eyes to ths restlessness of hi-i arch conspirator, and in a very short time after the Revolution of February, 1 realised tbe strength of the hand which directed the perpetual outbreaks of the populace.

When at last the Bonapartiats were victorious, I, as my protector had promised was reinstated in my position as Commis sary of Police.' I resumed possession of my post at the moment that Ledru-Rollin, one of the most active promoters of tho fall of Royalty, was the first sacrifice to his ene mie.«.

(Summoned to the Quar.ier Mdnilmontant, I had a nearer wew ot these fierce demo crats detcaniliug with Hubert the dissolu tion of tbe Chamber.

I felt as my quarters were moved from Menilmontuit to Batignolles and thea to the Quariier Saint-Martin, that the wires were pullet oy the conspirator ia London. Each time that a disastrous event occured among the Bonapartuts, their agents were ordered to chango their residences thattbey might not be suspected or supposed to be long to the princely conspirator. I wa?, in the pursuit of my duties, obliged to make a wri'ten affidavit that certain insurgent* had been killed at the barricades, and that in the pockets of these persons we-e found gold pieces on which was the head of the Quern of England, xfardly had I bpgun to draw up these pap ts than I was sent to another post vacant at Batignolles. My investigations ended there. My suc cessor continued them, however, and asked what was the tie which united the director of the national offices, M. Kniile Thomas, who bad disappeared on the 24th of June, to the Napoleon party. The abduction of Emile Thomas, the assassination of General Bie»—th« two dark incidents of the month of June —could "not bat be attributed to the in fluence of the Prince. How ' otherwise could the fact be explained that £mile Thomas became, after his unexplained dis appearance, thp guardjan aud managing man of the most important estates belong ing to the ex-Emperor? How olherwise could the conduct of Lahr bo explained, he who was the assassin of a general whom be did not know, and who, indeed, was atterly ignorant of our civil discords ? Jiihr was an excellent workman. Through strict economy he had amassed the sum of four thousand francs, which he, in 1847, employed in the purcbssQ of the stock and gogd-will of a wi'ue mefehant at the Burridre dcs Moujins.

Up to 1848 hp had taken no patt in politics, after fhe Revolution of February, when all work was at a standstill, Lahr was Hit unpaid, and was consequently ruined.

The Bonapartista eagerly took advantage of the critical position of this man. They bribed him with gold precisely like that taken from the pockets of the insurgents wliOjhad fallen at| the barricades. Lahr. thus returned from his perilous position, became so enthusiastic in regard to tbe Emperor's nephew, that he dragged his three brothers to tbe Fontalnbleau barrier shouting with them: ■' Long live Louis Nopeleon ! Long live little Louis ! We want him, and we ehall have him t"

The horrible emeute of June, like tbe: ridiculous manifestation of the 15th of May' —the one which was fatalto Cavaisnac and the other so disastrous t<j Ledru-Rollin—are the first batting-places oh the march ef ihe hero of Dpcerabejf. Louis IjTapoleon was involved in one Jong conspiracy from 1831 to 1873. Borne on by the revolulionery tide, he made the ElyseI*,1 *, from December 20. frJ4B, to Dtcember2, 1854; a permanent hot-bed of con spiracy. Tbe Legitimists and the Orleaoista con spired against' th,e Republic and Bepubli cans. Tjje Republicans conspired with the Legitimists '^annat the jQrlepnjfats, while both these parties (tried to reinforce them. selves, and to .draw into their ranks such Republicans as wer t e discontented. " Within tbfs apnaUjng and inexplicable network of conspiracy the mtiu of the Elyse'e, silent as a sphinx, sjiood ready to cad the situation when tbe proper time should arrive. By means of these peipetiul and con tradictory conspiracies the Bonaparti-itshad reduced all classes to the condition of the frogs who demanded a k'ng. as to the army, it had long desirfd to take its revenue on the Parisias populat on for the defeat of Feburary and the losses it had sufl'ered in those days of June. Such was th<! conditioe of France at the end of Noyembar, when auddenl.v the Qqyp d'etat took place, in the name of the peope, in favour of whqm Bonaparte restored universal suffrage, and in tjtt'e name of the army, whose prestige he pretpnded a wfsh to restore. Ever since my protector, M. Ls~, had admitted to me", on tbe foil of Louis Philippe, the role he had compelled inn to play in spite of. myself, I was no longer astonished at the enormous progress made by the B napartist party throughout France.

At this time Louis Bonaparte cajoled and fooled the nation as his friend M. L-—had fooled me.

The Prijace, whpm I met for the first time in 1832, was nev.er anything but a con spirator, He never ceased to be one until toe Jast'days ojf his Jife. He conspired on the steps of the throne' as well as in exile ; his whole life was parsed in Machiayeijian; combinations, intended to deceive his1 enemies, his friends and his accomplices. The existence of this Falstaff was a lons' succession of plots. He was a conspirator in 1831 in the Boman States, when his brother was killed near him, as well as in 1832, when, living in the FOtel dv Khin with his mo.ther, he seat out oa the Place Vend6me republicans and veterans, with ordepa to Bhout "Long live the Emperor I" His deeds at Strasbourg and Boulogne are too well known for me'to do more than allude to them in my mempire. In J§4B, after spending several years in London, be offered bis services to the jfjovcrnment of the Republic, after hayjog twice attacked with armed hands the povre? which had since pardoned him. Lamartine divided him, and set him to 3ighf, Whereupon Lojjis Bonaparte ioun daled yvitb. his agents a^d circulars the five department*, whose votes he desired to aive him a seat in tbe ConstHuent Assem bly. When in Paris he threw obstacles, by means of the Prefects and Generals whom he had gained over to his cause, to the march 0? the National Guards in the

provinces, who wiahed to hasten to the delivaranceof the capital. "When later he was President of the Republic, he finis hed bis work by summoning these same troops to his assistance. I will relate in the briefest manner this coup d'etat in which I played only a secondary part. I will only desciibe the corner of the picture in which I figured. M. Thiers was one of the victims of this mysterious manoeuvre. Everybody know that in oider to conceal the coup d'etat, the Prince President gave at tiro Elyeeo a concert, to which he invited all that was illustrious in France. The composer. Pelicien David, was playing his composi tion, "The Desert. It was to the sounds of this symphony that the new hero rnodi tated his political crime. ... ~ Prefect M. de Maupas was waiting in the President's cabinet unlil the soiree was over, to receive his orders. The iaapirer ot this midnight tragedy that had for its prologue the symphony of "TheDe?ort." was M. do Morny, who appeared [for a few momenta at tho Opera Comique iv order to do away with sus picions. A lndysaidtobim: . , , " M de Morny, is it true that the Chamber of Deputies is to be cleared out 1' "Upon my word, madame, 1 Know nothing about it; but if a broom is used to do the clearing out, I trust I may be on the side of tUe handle." At midnight M. do Morny weDt to tht Elysee to join his accomplices. The concert was over. The guoats de parted. The Presidential Palace returned to solitude and shadow. • A single lamp lighted Louis napoloon s cabinet. It stood on a little table near which M. de Maupas had been waiting for him for an hour. The tab'e was covered by phcards which, during the sawo nigjit, were intended to cover the walls ot Paris. Morny was the last to enter the cabinet; he took his pace oetween Louis Napoleon and Saint-Amaun. He formed the fourth actor in tho horrible drama which was to be enacted in the next tow hours, and which ended in the massacre of the Quartier Mod toraneil and of the Boulevard Montmartre. Genoral Magnan joined these four actors a little later. " Let his excellency tho Minister of War issue such orders to me as he pleases. I only ask one quarter of an hour to execute th Tho Genoral, after saying thenowords, C?Vhe'n the decrees were signed, Colonel Benville, who was awaiting ordere in ano ther room, departed in his turn for the national printing house, where a company of soldiers guarded tho workmen who were prwtiDß the proclamations which .changad inoueoiht the form of government for

During this time the Prince, who had sworn to.cspecttbe Republic, opened a desk and took trom it four packages, ad. dressed to his companions. The first p.ckago was for M. do Moray, and oontainedfivehundrod thousand f.ancs. With this money was his appointment as Minister of the Intorior. The locond, ad dre«ed to Saint-Arnaud, contained the same sum and an additional fifty thousand francs for Espinasse, who that sanie night was to introduce a battalion.into the National Assembly. The third, which bore the namo of Maupas, contained with the money a list of all the representatives, generals, and men of letters who had been ar.osted by his Corstcans. The fourth package, and the smallest, was intended for the police of the Elysio, and contained onehund.ed francs which was for the a'des-de-camps and employe* who had wVfched over tho printers while they bur riert throush the proclamations. ThU distribution made of these various sums borrowed by the chef cTctat trorn the bank, the Prince dismissed bis acconi- P Ha now awaited the results. Smoking hiß cigarette white he thus s'aked the fortunes of France, he was id readiness either to pass the frontier or to take his seat at the Tutlene?. As the poet sad: "Napoleon I. took possession ot France by taking her capitals "-Napolpon 111. did the same by takir R her capital." ~ , Singularly enough, a great many French men believed tho country saved through this monstrous step ot Louis Napoleon c. Tho Kepublicanssaw themselves delivered frorc tho fear by which they were inspired by the Faubourg Saint-Antoino. But the next evening the secret societies perceived that they bad been fooled by " the elect of the nation " but it was too late. _ In the beginning of mymemous 1 men tioned how 1 was warned by an anonymous letter, of the attitude of the civil officers at U>e moment oE the coup d'etat. I also told how M. Tillers, the illustrious statesman, compelled roe, so to apeak to obey my chiefs out of respect to the admi nistrative monarchy.

Once when I had bien personally ques tioned by M. de Maupas, in bis cabinet, I discovered that the confidence) with which ho had there honoured me was very limited. V umiahed with Bfcret instructions from him, I had not gone twenty step* before I tonad that I wss followed. There was some one at my heels—a shadow that followed mine. I pretended not to see it; but when I was on the other bank of the river, I took care to bring the spy into a fall glare of light, so that I could examino his piofile out of the corners ot my eye. At the first glance I recognized the vul turclike face and heavy mustache ot a Corsican. The| pressure of the band, the flattering words accorded by M. de Maupas, were only honey covering the blade of tne poniard which was to be tbrust between my I' immediately raturned to the H6tel Saint-Georges, leaving to M. Thiers the care of disconcerting the moo whom I was to have the air of conducting. Before learning the special duty reserved for mo in this caup d'etat, I was to addresß myself' to Bertoglio, the Corsioan oharged by M de' Maupas with tho respon sible tasfcof taking possession ot the Palace of the Assembly, defended like a fortress ever sjnc'ejpublic suspicion had been awussd in regard to thp mm d'etat. When the conimmaires were gone, having in their rockets their orders of arrest, the Prefect of Police turned to Bertoglio and said : ' " I have had my eyes upon yon for some time. I rely on yon to execute an operation on which the success of the night's opera tions depends. Baze and General L>fld, whoguard'ihe Assembly With a battalion of'the 42.1, roust' bo, arrested.' ' Bertoglio,' whoiie audacity equalled his cleverness, rubbed bis forehead, and became yery thoughtful.' Maupas emptied his purse into the hand of the '"orsican. f There must not be a sh>t fired, con tinued Moupas. "If thp trQops were to fire on each other ajl would be lost _ Berlojjlio after pocketing the gold pieces boaan to rub his forehead once more, • " I can have on officer with me, I sop rjoe?" he asked. ~,'«' ' '"' You will find," answeredM. de Maupas, "the Colonel of the 42.1, C-lonel tcspinasse, at the bead of e'ght hundred men b-for« the door of the AsfomMy." At six o'cioek, Ber:ogho, escorted by a souad of police and a company of gendar merie, was at his post. Ue mot Colonel Le praassc, whoa 1 rived at '-he hour named followed by the soldier* of the 42d Cornel Lespinaese and his msn were ranged' behind Bertoglio with Ins police and gendarmerie. . they all took their way to the Legisla tive Pal ioe through the Hue de luniver site". At a quarter past six o'clock the side door of the palace opened. The major of the 42d advanced to meet the troops commanded by Lespinasse and reinforced by Bertogho. The major addressed his colonel and asked him with a cynicism which was un paralleled at such a moment: " fs the money ready V Before Le3pinasse could reply, a man from'Bertbglio's baud came up to the major, and gave him ten bank-notes. '«• Take these," he said, " but there will be more for you. The Prince, beside*, has bid me say to you that he makes you Ghef de Bataillon, and that his generosity would notst p theie." , ... " Enter," said the major, stepping aside from the open doorway. Bortoglio and Lespinassa were thus enabled to carry out the plans of Maupas —that is to cay, they took without noise tho two questors, •'»»* and 1 pfk Mv readers know the entire success ot tMs plan in the Palace of the Oorp* Ledshtif,' at the Ministry of the In tenor, and everywhere else. I, followed by the CofsjcaD, went to my ofbee. There, too, presently appeared this spy, who pre sented hlm<elf in the name of the Prince. He enlightened me as to the r§lp J. was to play' and the disposition of the order of arrest with which I had been furnished. I iyas bidrlea ip S» to the various printing establishments in my fivfondissement, and there to seize ths presses in ease thou pro prietors wade Any hostile dempnstra ""faithful to the system of surveillance to which all the agents who were in any decree suspected at the Elysee w«e subjected, I

was then to watch the guard who were to occupy the printing-offices The names of tho '' well-disposed" journals, who were willing t > explain in a favourable sense the acts of the Prince, were given me by the Cors:can, who also told me how large a number of men were detailed to guard each establishment. This seizure took pace at the same moment in all the printing-presses of Paris, while at the same time M. i hier?, General Cavaignac, Uensial Bsdeaux, and certain newspaper editors were arrested in their beds, and pointed out ti the President of tho Kepublic as ardent Republicans. Some of these men were taken to Mazat, others to the Chateau of Ham, the cradle of tho conspiring Piinco, who now im prisoned the very persons who, as ardent lovers of liberty, had been the ones who managed his own escape. In this raid, my lot of victims was tbe least repugnant; it represented only the material part of tbe intelligent world, now constrained by the manoeuvres of thin conspiring Prince. The next morning when Parisi awoke, it was dumb. Only the press, which had been bought at the Elyptie, made the smallest allusion to the coup d'etat, and these exp'ained in three paragraphs the acts of the future Emperor. Franco was saved became Mazas, Baze, Leflo, Lamoricidre Changarnier, Bedeau, Thiors, and Cavaignac were shut up in the thieves' cells; bi-cause former lieutenants had delivered ov«r those generals to the hands of the enemy ; because the heroes of Strasbourg nnd Boulogne, thanks »o the sword of Saint Arnaud, could now aveDge civilisation.

As to myself, serving as I was, in spite of myself, the friends of the Elysee, I thought then just what I think now ; tbat France was puni-hed because she had drifted with her clctiny; because all her faults came from ilia primary one she had committed In 1848. Hut fdr the fall of Louis Philippe, we should not uavo faHen into the hands of Lamirtine —a poet, not a statesman—of C'avaignac, an irresolute genera'", and of a Bonaparte-a Prince unprincipled, perjured, and criminal 1

(To be Continued )

HEH FAN.

Fanling I take her this M-s, and I'll iwuqh your 1 faults I

—C.E.S., in the Century.

Letter from Cardinal Richelieu to the French Ambassador at Borne.

[FiRBT read the letter across, then double It In

the middle, and reiul the first column.]

I|p|-:^|llr og |3sS| K ,|

SI i iliWi*:^ P ISeflfliHflii&itft n 3 p,? o.s 3 o fk» sco? ,0.. P.3-S?."

Selected Poetry.

So I am to koop you, Httlo fan I Whilo sha goes to w:\ltz with tho eighteenth man.

Well! now that I havo you, the question, sweet, Is, whether to kiss you, or butter and beat ?

That you've boon her accomplice, in moments gone by, la tricks to torment mo, you cannot deny I

How oft. from her side I've been ordored to go. To hunt for your fauship, high and low,

And been, for not (Hiding you frowned at and

chjdl While' 'ncath her own furbelows, bfttely you hidj ■

If you weren't Just warm from her clasp, I fear You'd ha.vo fluttered your last at solroos, my dear I*

This, too, i; tho cord she cruolly twists, In my envious sight, round her mdk white wrista;

And this, tho edgo she'd do nothing but bitis, When I prayed for ono word, in tho soft star light

She's a flirt, wretcliod fan 1 from, hor he,ud (0 horfdot, In its damty, aqpromely ftbsurb littlo boot 1

(Though ono such wlqkednoss wouldn't surmise, From those tender lips, and ahy, swoet oyea I

And she looks, tonight, in that whito robo's

flow, Fair and pure as a lily in snow:)

But her heart, undor all, may bo deop and true— The oooau has frivolous froth on its bluo 1

That she likes mo a little, I can't help be lieving !— If I only wore euro of that fact, till-rotriovinff!

* * 4 Hero shocomca back, at last, grown a roBO, in the waltz!

THE LITTLE COMFORTER.

I have a littlo Comforter, That climbs upon my kneo, And frjakes the'wqrld seem, passibjo When things go wrong \yith me. She never ia the one. to Bay; " If you had only boon More careful and more Bonsible, This thing had been foreseen." ' She blesses mo.

Caressos me, ' And whispers : " NeYor mind ; To-morrow night All will bo right, Sly papa, good and kind,"

To give me wise ana good advloe I nave of friends a scare; ' But then the trouble ever is,

I knew it all'before ' And when ono's heart is full o£ cai'O, ■ One's plans all in a moss, ' ' flic wisest reasoningl,l think, ■ Can't iijakc. the trouble loss. '• Spy Maniid'o waf ' Is just to say: 'l Oh, pap.v, tlqn't b,e sad: To-morrow njsht AH will he right, And then we shall bo glad,"

Some think I hare beon much to blame; Some say: " I told you so;" And otliew sigh : " Vvhat can't be helped Must be endured, you know." Of pourse, if trouble can't bo helped, Then crying iq ir> vain; But when a wrong will not como right, Why Bhould I not complain V In Mamie's eyes • I'm always wise j Sho never tninkb njo wrong; ' It's understood ■ I'm always good- Good as tho day is long.''

All day I'vo kept a choerful face. All uay been on tho strain; NGW | niay rest, or I may sign, Or, if I like, complain, My daughter thinks as papa thinks, And in her loving Bight, I am a clever, prudent man, Who has done all things right. Faith so completo, Oh, it is sweet, When neithor wise nor strong! But Lovo stands host Tho better tost Of sorrow and of wrong.

Then como, my littlo Comforter, And climb upon my knee j You make the world seem possible ■ When things go wrong with. we. For you've tho wisdom far beyond The rbaoh of any B&gQ, The loving, tender, hopeful trust That best pan strengthen age. Say; "Papa, dear. Now don't yqi\ fear: Before to-morrow night The oares you droad Will all have fled, And everything bo right -Harpers Weekly,

AN ARAB MONSTER.

AWFUL SUFFERINGS ENDURED BY THE

PRISOSKtS AT CAIKO,

When the Drasoins took possession of the capital at Cairo, It was discovered that unheard-of cruelties had been perpetrated on harmless Europeans by Major Logheib, a slimly-built Oriental, who welcomed the English with smiles and blessings. What followed is thus described by tbe "Tele graph" special:—

A gentleman in uniform was marching abouf, and came cdnging and bowing to the colonel, declaring after Oriental fashion that n'l he posse sed was at the feet of the new comers, and ihat all he desired in the world was hts future friendship and coun tenance. Tho colonel thought him quite a civil fellow. He was a bimbashi, or major —misfortune had compelled him for a while to follow Arabi. He haed Arabi and loved the red-coat colonel. Would he embrace and swear eternal friendship ? No ? Ah, well 1 the English are a cold race, and the birabashi was impulsive. " What was he, the major, doing?" What cnuld tbat magnificent uniform and splendid appear ance havß to do with tho ragged rabble who had just tumbled over tho embaukment— with the disreputable crew who, piteously whining, bad not possessed tho courage to follow? Alas! circumstances — circum stances 1 The bimbashi sworo by nil his gods tbat he loved Europe ; that evon, when ordered, ho had declined to move a finger against England's troops; that he had emphatically refused to defend the citadel in order to 3ave valuable European life. This was obviously ridiculous, and the suspicious colonel waxed less trustful. Would the bimbashi's guest share his humble lodging ; would he accept a soldi' r's little luxuries—soup, tea ? Such trifling commodities are really appreciated after many days of hardship. " Kefused to de fend the citadel?" The plausible gentle man had overshot his mark. The vast walls of tho citadel could not possibly have been dcfended*by this ■ portly and greasy bimbashi. He was a humbug—perchance something worse. Pending inquiry, the major waß put under arrest, and the colonel examined the premises, Three prisons teeming with miserable victims were choked with audible wretcheJness. Such prisons and such prisoners 1 In tho first wtre a handful of Europeans—Malt"se, chiefly—who had had no food for four days, and were so injured as regarded their bodies that they had to be carriod into the air. One was bastinadoed on the feet till his soles were reduced to jelly; anothor showed his back, literally flayed and cut as with a knife j a third had broken loga; a fourth.—-. Buc why go on ? These were the oi>ly remedies nature had applied to the wounds, and mortification was in many cases imminent. Who was responsible for this? " The bimbasbi," all ■nurmured. His Excellency -uleiman Zoyheib Kfl'endi, who was tbe cruel'est wretch alive.

This was very odd. The smiling.onvable official wholovi-d the English so un< Major Zogh'ib—could ho bo guilty of such hidt ons cruelty ? This mu-t be looked into, but meanwhile he mu*t not o-tape ; si, digui'y, uniform, amiability, and «H notwithstand ing, he was promptly put in irons and epositod in a separate cell under care of two sturdy Coldstreams. The following aorning the matter wa< carefully sifted by ir Charles Wilson, and a pretty story lime to light. I Wiis fortuuate enough to bo preaent nt tho investigation. It was shown with crystal cc tainty that this big, burly, jolly, fat- Gated fellow ii a L'g cc, who enjoys cruelty for its own sike as well as for p^ qumres nccruing. It was proved th-t in one prison alone-a foul, small, square ! yard, open to the sky—two bundled acd fifty sufferer-i were confintd, mr.re or loss maimod—«ome of wh m had succeeded in evading the kor.rb.tch, and the hot i on by diut of uppcie payment. Major Z gheib had snared a few for bribeß -had amassed, by diligent squeezing from the indigent, no less than a hundred pounds, but haa visited the penniless with reculiar rigour, according to his private code. What had he to say to this? Ho smiled, looked up to Heaven, clasped, bis hot fg,t hands aa well as fetters would permit, vowed that he never took a penny, that Arabs always turn on their superiors In moments of defeat, that he was an angel whnso nnsmirchod ness would be mido clear fome day. Un fortunately for him, it turned out that he had already confessed 10 the grinding out of thirty p'muda from a petty farmer with promises of ro-tttu'ioii if tho latter would connive at ceeip?. All tUo wounds in* Ilictfd on tho prisoners werp of ancient date—inflicted at headquarter* before t^hey w«ro cQrumJtted to his fuiheilj aare. He would rather <\U a th usmd deaths than hurt a fly—w uli the kind officer bo eood enough to remove his irons ? tie would never refitet this courtesy so long as either of the twain live. A humbug, i rnffiati of the west kind, evidently an Oriental tribute to the genim of Mr 'Wilkie Collins—for there stocd Count Fo-cj in the ilffih, a trifle brown, perhaps, and cli\d in Ottoman uniform, but Fosco none the Jess.. Bip, tall, fat, unctuous, p'ausible, with smUiog, angelic face and heart of tt'innnn't-just tho man ti have caltivatod tame white mice wh'le plaining unheard of crimes. And whit a horrible catalogue of crimes came out as Sir Charles Wilsou painfully waded through the mire of blood and suffering. Gaetuno Emfolli was a Maltese cochman, wh» must,of course, bo a British spy. At sunrise and sunset he re ceived dafly 60 blows from a wire m his upturned Jeer, merely as an encourage* ment for the divulging of information which the victim did not possess. Another Maltese, who lost his way near Alexandria and fell into the enemy's linos, had, liter, a^ly, piocos of flesh cut out of him with knottod cords. How was it don,e, I asked,

" Two men satoa my shouldors and two on my feet, and a sergeant of police stood one on either side with knotted lashes, slashing alternately with rogular rhythm." AH Mansool-4Arab from, the Suez-t-had made, good his flight from that town at the time of the occupation bjr Admiral Hewett, but rciremhoring his wife, returned, and so was caught. "Ah I returning to the English, eh?" He was a double-dyed traitor, and so was handed over to special punishment. On the back and feet this man actually received 1,200 bastinado blows at one sitting. Only an Arab, whoso tenacity of life is proverbial (»s has. been proved, pn' rticept haUlefielaa), oould have borne such suffering and lived. Another had received 550 blow?, all on the back. tie was arrested at Tanta and flogged, though there was naught agakist him, in hopes of a hint or two Seing gathered, horn, his' groa.ns, Some rr^en bore signs of '^hunibs^re.ws, others a network of hot branding on their breasts. The precious fat major always made a point of attending every punishment; exhorting the Bufferors to pay '<p, aud escape further torment; and when they made no reply he took the yel'ow sho* from his attendant, and belaboured the victims across the face. We_ have been ridiculously and culpably lenient to many evildoers in this affair; with fierce satisfaction I here record that the villainous Foscq has been removed from his sqlHary qoll. Despite h.is cries he ]}as bpen han'ilcufled and flung ia tl}e corn, rnon ward among loss ma4nificent offenders to await the result of a court-martial.

The British Transport Fleet.

TBB transport fleet of 250.Q0Q tqns, used to convey troops and stores to Egypt, ia about equal to quarter of the whole mor cantil navy of France j it is larger than that of Russia, which is 211,000 tons, and nearly as that of Austro-Hungary, which is 282,000 tons. But further, nearly all our transports are steamships of the highest efficiency, and represent therefore much more transport power per ton than the numerically (quivalent tonnage of less maritime people. It is by such com parisons that the wealth and resources of Great Britain are best understood. Cer tainly nothing like the present splendour and strength cf f>u/ mo,rcantUa fleet was over previously known to the history of nations ' hoouiciaup, Gteecians, Romans, never approximated to the wonderful ex pansion of the British shipping trade. Before the groat civil war our rtmerienn cousins essayed the task of driving us from the onein by their splendid clipper*, but since tho war tboy have gradually been de clining as ship builders and ship owner-. The American were to monnppiise the carrying trade of Great Britain and acquire for the Americans the supremacy at sea which' Britain had long enjoyed, to the envy of all nations, but new industrial pursuit's, agricultural, pastoral, and mining, having diverted the attention of Brother Jonathon from shipping, aud now a]jout 75 pp' cent, of his trade, bp.th inwards and outwards is parrfpd pn under Inon-Ameripan flags. At the samp time the increase of our own sea-carrying trade is a growing marvel among the mar vels of this progressive agp.— Eife.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 18, 1882.



'Medical Pjuctitionehs will fliid that in in Cipi^nt phthisis, cbronio bronchial afflictions. complicated asthmaticai complaints, and in most oases' whe o the breathing powers are oppres sed and o nstrioted, with corresponding loss of vital energy, &o. Aickinls Syrup of Eucalyptus w.th Hypophosphite of Lime and Quinine, ia an effeotive pharamaceutioal prepa ration of great1 value. It has the effect of speedily ptirmilating the bronchial mucous membrane and freeing tenacious phlegm, &0., thereby n#<sfainfe great relief in dis ressing coughs. Its a'ctidn upon lung tissues is undoubt edly healing and reparatlve.' Upon tha gene ral health this medicine is permanently tonjo. im narUng a vitality beyond th» normal state of the fiatienf. The effeqt upon the breathirigf powers & quickly'apparent, ijip result being that the anfferw' pxperjenoos cpflßider»bie relwf, and UHifoato resorery.'



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Aft HE A T HER . GENERAL IMPOBTEB, HAS ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE-; BRANDY- Gourvolsler'B Brandy In bulk do do one diamond, four dta. " , mond, andVO Associated Vineyard Brandy in bulk."e«H» flask, and half-flask ""^oass. Muller Freres" Brandy in bulk, case, fluv and halt flask "*• Hennessy'a Brandy In case . W. and A. Gllbey's Brandy In case RUM ■ Lowndes", 500.p., -casks and hhda Lemon Hart's, J-oasks W. and A. Gllbey's, in case, V"V and white WHISK Yftralk)- Greenleesi Inverness, Glenllvet, Terrier Kirker, Greer and Co,, In demijohns an* 2 gallon jars -»»u« WHISKYtoase)- OoUIe Blend, Boyal Blend, Rob Roy, Jam. boam.Qlen Almond. W. and A. Gllhnv? Irish and Bootoh In flasks **""""»*... BCHNAPPB- Henke's, W. and A, Gilbert WINES (bulkK- - |fV Suva and Costa's, Australian, Grenaoh. bm Tokay -.«•« . . WINKS (In ease)-*- W. and A. Gllbey's (Castle brand), part Sherry, Claret, Marsala, Madeira, i_ I' b, o, b, and s i yd Clarets, 0. 1, 2, Tit Champagne - Roederer, Perrler and Camuset v ALE- Bass, bottled by Hall Boars Head, bottled by Hall * John Ball,bottled by John Reid Ashby's and MoK wan's " Globe " brand Anglo-Bavarian STOI/T- Boarti Head, Hall Kdmond's Pig Brand Gnlness's, bottled by Blood Wolfe Sparkling Nenrotone. pints and quarts Gale and Friend's and Johns, Matthews and Oa ' Genuine White Lead and Zlno ' Linseed Oil, Raw and Boiled, In drums Colza Oil, In drums Castor Oil, In bulk DRIED FRUITS- Currants, In half oases Elme Raisins and Figs Alden Apples (evaporated) KEROSENE, 130 and 150 test- Devoe's Royal Brilliant, Light ot Age. Pre. mlumSafeiy Prime York Hams and Baoon at Low Rites TOBAOCO- Over the Water, la's, Nallrod Royal Standard Long 6'g Venus, U'b, Q's, Double Xhlok P Pleoes OILMEN'S BTORKS- Teas. Sugar, 10, lw, No. 8; Paper Bum. Pickles, Kippered Herrings, Potted Meats, and an assortment of General Goods always on hand. A HEATHER. rpHE TMPERIAL ©CHD3DAM QCHNAPPS, A PORE AROMATIC SPIRIT. Distilled and prepared in Schiedam, Holland, from an Original Receipt, and possessing a Rare Medicinal Qualities in all DISEASES OS" THBS s KIDNEYS, BLADDER, AND URINARY OKGAISS. A Tonio, Diuretic, Antl-Dyepeptlo CORDIAL, by the recommendation ot the Leading Continental Physicians, and Is now ACKNOWLEDGED AS THE LATEST AHD MOST , VALUABLE REMEDY FOB GRAVEL, GOUT, & CHRONIC RHEU MATISM. "The Trade and Consumers are cautioned - against spurious Imitations, the genuine only bearing the signature and address of the pro prietor. HENRI J, HART, MELBOURNE. Used In the Melbourne Hospital, and awarded by the Jury FIRST PRIZa: at the Mel bourne International Exhibition, B DR. HASSAWS REPORT. " The Analytical and Sanitary Institution, "51, Holborn Viaduct, 8.0., " London, 9th May. 1877. > " Report of a Sample of Imperial Sohledam Sohnapps, received from Mr H. J. Hart. "We have subleoted a sample of the above named aitlole to a very oireful ohemloal analysis j and examination. "Theresults ot the analysis, which are set forth in a separate report, show that this spirit Is ot good strength, praotioally tree from acidity, and that it contains but traces of solid matter In solution. It possesses a delicate and agree able aroma, and a pure and mild taste. Mr Hart's Sohledam Sohnapps Is a very superior article of its olass, is well purified, and quite genuine. "(Signed) ArthurH.Hassall.M.D., / " Author ot' Food and Its Adulterations.' Sec " Orro Hbhnbr. F. 0.5., ! "Publio Analyst." Wholesale Agent i ARTHUR H. NATHAN. 1 K EPLEK Malt E XTRAC The undersigned, A3 AGENT, has just opene InKXCKLLENT CONDITION the first shipment of the following i— * KEPLER'S EXTRACT OB1 MALT, Large and Small Sizes, KEPLER S EXTRACT OF MALT. With HOFB KEPLER'S EXTRACT OF MALT, With Htpophohfhites, KEPLER'S EXTRACT OF MALT, With PIPSIHB KEPLER'S EXTRACT OF MALT, With Chemical Food, .. KEPLER'S EXTRACT OF MALT, With Bkbf and Ibo», ; KEPLER'S EXTRACT Off MALT, With Oil and lodide or laom The "Lancet' says:—"KeDler Malt Extract is very good, and may be used with confidence." 3 Second Report ot the Lancet" on the Kepler * Malt Extract i— Kepler's Extract of Malt is as distlnot an advance in therapeutics as was the Introduction ot ood-llver oil. It is one of our best remedies for atonlo dyspepßls, and Is undoubtedly useful In consumption and other wasting diseases." Assent i?or Auckland— GRAVES AICKJN, Tbb PHABMAor. Queen street. Keating's Powder, KEATING'S POWDER KEATING'S POWDEK J KEATING'S POWDER KILLS BUGS, FLK\S. MOT as, BEHTLttS. This Powder is Quits: Habmlhbs to Animal Lite, but is unrivalled In destroying fleas, bugs, ooekroaohes, beetles, moths in tats, and every othor speoles ot inseot. Sports . men will find this Invaluable for destroying >< fleas in their dogs, as also ladies for their pet dogs. This Abtlcle has Found so Gbeat a Sam that it has tempted others to vend a so oaUed article In imitation. The Public are Cautioned that the tins of the genuute '. powder bear the autograph of THOMAS » KEATING. KEATING'S WORM TABLETS ,„ KEATING'S WORM TABLETS 16 KB AUNG'S WORM TABLKTS KEATING'S WORM TABLETS A Purely Vhgetahlb Sweetmeat, both In appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method ot administering the only certain remedy tor INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly cafe and mild preparation, and Is especially adapted for Children. ' Sold in Tins by all Chemists and Drug gists. PfiOFRIETOBI THOMAa KEATING, ? ' LONDON. PROSPECTUS or THE HELENSVILLE FLOUR MILL COM- ; PANY (LIMITED). . CAPITAL £20,000 In 20,000 Shares of £1 Each, Paya le as follows: —Ten ShuliußS per Share to be paid during the first Twelve Months; One Shilling on application; One Shilling on allotment: Two Shillings on Ist February ; Two Shillings on Ist May; Two Shillings on Ist August; Two Shillingsoa Ist of September, 1883. Provisional Directors : Mr John Foster Mr H. P. Kavanagh Mr James Hand Mr Isaao MoLeoa) Mr D. MoDlennan Mr William Adams Mr R. A. McLeod. With power to add to their number, Bankers: National ank of New Zealand. Solicitors: Messrs Dlgnan and Armstrong. SaoBETARy. pro tern. : Joseph Griffiths, The objoots of the Helensvllle Flour Mill Com pany (Limited) will be the erection of a Floor Mill and Grain Store, and the Importation oi Grain from the South or any other part ot ta world where they can purohasa with advan tage. The advantages that the proposed Company would possess over all others In the proviaos are patent. Vessels coming from the Sownia Kalpara Ports for timber are, as a rule,frel«h»i with grain, and the Helensvllle Timber Com pany's mills being now in full operation wouia be a great inducement for that class of vessels to run to Helensvllle, and would ensure cheap freights, whilst the consumption of flour lot Kalpara alone will guarantee a large trade the Company. B EDWARD'S OOAUmsS TO THS • GOLDFKLD.-TIMK-TABLE. Leaving Hamilton tor Te Anna every Tatt day, Thursday and Saturday. .... Leaving To Aroha for Hamilton on Honw Wednesday, and Friday. pedal Carriages provided to Order. a EDWARDS Uvenr and Bait Stables. Hamlll