events. Of a
courageous and energetic disposition, he pursued the duties of his
profession with a firm step, and hid his mighty sorrow deep in the
recesses of his heart. To the superficial observer, tears, groans, and
lamentations are the only proofs of sorrow: and when they subside,
the sorrow is said to have passed away also. Thus the captive, immured
within the walls of his prison-house, is as one dead to the outward
world, though the gaoler be a daily witness to the vitality of
affliction.

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Paris has been again emptied of its citizens to see M. Poitevin make
his second ascent on horseback from the Champ de Mars. To show that he
was not fastened to his saddle, the idiot, when some hundred yards
up in the air, stood upright on his horse, and saluted the multitude
below with both his hands.

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PEASANT LIFE IN GERMANY.

We copy the following interesting paragraph from a work just issued in
London on "The Social Condition and Education of the People of England
and Europe," by Joseph Kay, of Cambridge University.

"As I have already said, the _moral, intellectual and physical
condition of the peasants and operatives_ of Prussia, Saxony
and other parts of Germany, of Holland, and of the Protestant
cantons of Switzerland, and the social condition of the
peasants in the greater part of France, _is very much higher
and happier, and very much more satisfactory, than that of
the peasants and operatives of England_; the condition of the
_poor_ in the North German, Swiss and Dutch _towns_, is as
remarkable a contrast to that of the poor of the _English
towns_ as can well be imagined; and that the condition of the
_poorer classes_ of Germany, Switzerland, Holland and France
is _rapidly improving_. The great _superiority_ of the
_preparation_ for life which a _poor man_ receives in those
countries I have mentioned, to that which a peasant or
operative receives _in England_, and the difference of the
social position of a poor man in those countries to that of
a peasant or operative in England, seem sufficient to explain
the difference which exists between the moral and social
condition of the poor of our own country and of the other
countries I have named. In Germany, Holland, and Switzerland,
a child begins its life in the society of parents who have
b