This is a Muggletonian prophecy of the de-
struction of the world at a certain date. The
prediction failed, however, and the prophet
found it necessary to explain the reason:-

Troar. The authors, owing to their disappoint-
HE MIGHTY ANGEL'S MIDNIGHT

ment, most sedulously investigated its cause, and
instantly announce its discovery. Daniel's vision,
in chap. 8, was for 2300 years, to the end of
which (see 5-12) the little horn' was to practise
and prosper, after which comes the year of God's
wrath, which was erroneously included in the
2300 years, and thus the midnight cry will be a
year later than stated.-Times, 1851.

NO WIDOWERS and SINGLE GENTLEmen.-Wanted, by a lady, a SITUATION to superintend the household and preside at table. She is agreeable, becoming, careful, desirable, English, facetious, generous, honest, industrious, judicious, keen, lively, merry, natty, obedient, philosophic, quiet, regular, sociable, tasteful, useful, vivacious, womanish, xantippish, youthful, zealous, &c. Address X. Y. Z., Simmond's library, Edgeware-road.-Times.

The variety is perhaps as astonishing as the number of advertisements in the Times. Like the trunk of an elephant, no matter seems too sad, to be lifted into notoriety by the giant minute or too gigantic, too ludicrous or too of Printing-house Square. The partition of a thin rule suffices to separate a call for the loan of millions from the sad weak cry of the destitute gentle woman to be allowed to slave in a nursery "for the sake of a home." Vehement love sends its voice imploring through the world after a graceless boy, side by side with the announcement of the landing of a cargo of lively turtle, or the card of a bugkiller. The poor lady who advertises for boarders "merely for the sake of society," finds her "want" cheek-by-jowl with some Muggletonian announcement gratuitously calculated to break up society altogether, to the effect that the world will come to an end by the middle of the next month. Or the reader is informed that for twelve postage stamps he may learn "How to obtain a certain fortune," exactly opposite an offer of a bonus of 5007. to any one who will obtain for the advertiser

a Government situation." The Times reflects every want and appeals to every moTHE THE TITLE OF AN ANCIENT BARON. tive which affects our composite society. And Mr. George Robins is empowered to SELL the TITLE and DIGNITY of a BARON. The why does it do this? Because of its ubiquiorigin of the family, its ancient descent, and illus-ty: go where we will, there, like the housetrious ancestry, will be fully developed to those and such only as desire to possess this distinguish ed rank for the inconsiderable sum of 1000l. Covent-garden Market.-Times, 1841.

fly or the sparrow, we find it. The porter reads it in his beehive-chair, the master in his library; Green, we have no doubt, takes it with him to the clouds in his balloon, and the collier reads it in the depths of the mine; the

pair back, the gold-digger in his hole, and the soldier in the trench, pores over its broad pages. Hot from the press, or months old, still it is read. That it is, par excellence, the national paper, and reflects more than any

other the life of the people, may be gathered from its circulation. They show in the editors room a singular diagram, which indicates by an irregular line the circulation day by day and year by year. On this sheet the gusts of political feeling and the pressure of popular excitement are as minutely indicated as the force and direction of the wind are shown by the self-registering apparatus in Lloyd's Rooms. Thus we find that in the year 1845 it ran along a pretty nearly dead level of 23,000 copies daily. In 1846-for one day, the 28th of January, that on which the report of Sir Robert Peel's statement respecting the Corn Laws appeared-it rose in a towering peak to a height of 51,000, and then fell again to its old number. It began the year of 1848 with 29,000, and rose to 43,000 on the 29th February-the morrow of the French revolution. In 1852 its level at starting was 36,000, and it attained to the highest point it has yet touched on the 19th of November, the day of the Memoir of the Great Duke, when 69,000 copies were sold. In January, 1853, the level had risen to 40,000; and at the commencement of the present year it stood at 58,000, a circulation which has since increased to 60,000 copies daily! Notwithstanding all the disturbing causes which make the line of its circulation present the appearance of hill and dale, sometimes rising into Alp-like elevations, its ordinary level at the beginning of each year for some time past has constantly gone on advancing, insomuch that within ten years its circulation has more than doubled by 7000 daily.

During the greater part of the time that the proprietors were reaping this splendid harvest from the infatuation of the people, the heaviest guns were daily brought to bear from the leading columns upon the bubbles which rose up so thickly in the advertising sheet. The effect of their fire may be measured by the falling off of nearly three thousand pounds in the returns for a single week. A journal which could afford to sacrifice such a revenue to its independence, certainly deserved some consideration from the Government; but, on the contrary, it appears to have been singled out for annoyance by the New Act which relates to newspapers. We see certain trees on our lawns whose upshooting branches are by ingenious gardeners trained downwards, and taught to hold themselves in a dependent condition by the imposition of weights upon their extremities. The State gardeners have lately applied the same treatment to the journal in question, by hanging an extra halfpenny stamp upon every copy of its issue-a proceeding which, in our opinion, is as unfair as it is injudicious; and this they will find in the future, when the crowd of mosquito-like cheap journals called forth by the measure, and supported by the very life-blood of the leading journal, begin to gather strength and to attack Whiggery with their democratic buzz.

Thus

This vigorous growth is the true cause of that wonderful determination of advertisements to its pages, which have overflowed into a second paper, or Supplement, as it was formerly called. That this success has been We have dwelt chiefly upon the advertising fairly won, we have never ourselves doubted, sheet of the "Times," because it is the epibut a fact has come to our knowledge which tome of that in all the other journals. It will pretty clearly prove that this great paper must be mentioned, however, that some of is conducted on principles which are superior the morning and weekly papers lay themto mere money considerations; or rather its selves out for class advertisements. operations are so large that it can afford to the Morning Post" monopolizes all those inflict upon itself pecuniary losses, such as which relate to fashion and high life; and the would annihilate any other journal, in order" Morning Advertiser," the paper of the Lito take a perfectly free course. In the year 1845, when the railway mania was at its height, the Times advertising sheet was overrun with projected lines, and many a guess was made, we remember, at the time as to their probable value, but high as the estimates generally were, they came far short of the truth. We give the cash and credit returns of advertisements of all kinds for nine weeks:

censed Victuallers, aggregates to itself every announcement relating to their craft. "Bell's Life" is one mass of advertisements of vari

ous sports; the "Era" is great upon all theatricals; the "Athenæum" gathers to itself a large proportion of Book Advertisements. The "Illustrated News" among the weeklies, like the "Times" among the dailies, towers by the head above them all. A hebdomadal circulation of 170,000 draws a far more cosmo

From the New Monthly Magazine.

MARSHAL DE SAINT ARNAUD.*

MARSHAL DE SAINT ARNAUD was pre- | in early life the hero of many a romantic ademinently a soldier of fortune. His personal venture. courage and his military ardor remain incontestable. But deprived of his father in infancy, educated away from his mother (who entered into a new matrimonial alliance) at the Lycée Napoléon, and admitted when only seventeen into the Gardes-du-Corps du Roi, Leroy de Saint Arnaud-his detractors grant him only the first name as the one to which he is legitimately entitled-had, his brother acknowledges, a jeunesse orageuse, and he was, according to the same authority,

misfortunes that overtook the garde-du-corps,
Leroy. The marshal has a grateful heart,
and he hastened to take his brother, who
was obscurely inscribed on the list of advo-
cates under the name also of Leroy, to make
a councillor of state of him under the more
glorious name of Saint Arnaud.”*

There is a lapse at this epoch of the late marshal's life. The discreet editor of his correspondence hurries over it by telling us that "too quickly tired of the monotony of a garrison life, he started in 1822 to join the Greeks in their war of independence." When Marshal Saint Arnaud became minister, the journals of the opposition reminded him of certain histrionic attempts which, under the assumed name of Florival, he had made, according to some at the Gaite, according to others in the suburbs. The minister was placed too high to notice such calumnies, and his contemporary of the Interior was too much engaged in affairs of the state to consult the Mémoire du Bureau des Théâtres.

As to the Philhellenic furor, our young hero was soon cured of that. After a skir mish before the walls of Modon, which satisfied him as to what could be expected from the military virtues of the modern Greeks, and being taken prisoner by pirates near Navarino, he imbibed a still worse notion of their patriotism, so he returned to Salonica, "profondément guéri," writes his biographer,

"de son enthousiasme."

At this period Leroy de Saint Arnaud also travelled in Italy, Belgium, and England. His means were so limited, that he is said to have had recourse to teaching in this country. If so, it is no reflection upon the man: Louis Philippe did the same. Certain it is that he mastered several languages, especially the English, and his proficiency in this respect was, even more than his military zeal, as attested by his own correspondence, when first thrown in contact with General Bugeaud at Blaye, one of the first causes of his success in life.

No pursuit in life can, however, stifle the original instincts of the man. The revolution of July, 1830, aroused all his military ardor, he returned to France, asked for a reappointment, and received a commission in

*Le Bulletin Français, No. V. p. 94.

Another biographer describes M. de Saint Arnaud as leaving the gardes-du-corps and the Company of Grammont to join the Legion of Corsica as a sub-lieutenant, and after that the Legion of the Bouches du Rhone.-Les Hommes de la Guerre d'Orient: Le Maréchal de Saint-Arnaud. Par Edmond Texier.

the 64th Regiment, about to be employed against the Chouans of La Vendée. It is at this epoch in his career, and that of his marriage, which took place the same year at Brest, in 1831, that the correspondence discreetly commences. Seldom were the incidents of the civil war in the Vendée more graphically described. The activity and zeal of the young lieutenant-Saint Arnaud was then in his thirty-third year-and the kind of service he was engaged in, will be best judged of by an extract from one of his letters, dated Parthenay, Oct. 21, 1832:

The bands of Chouans cross the country, so also do the movable columns. How is it that the movable columns perpetually meet one another, but never meet the Chouans? It is because the people detest us and love the rebels; every one chance and good luck in our favor, and they do serves them, no one helps us. We have only not smile upon us. For the last fortnight I have only done one thing: I found one of their caches. How is it possible to find people who live in the bowels of the earth? Imagine, in the midst of the country a great oak-tree, whose trunk, about eight feet high, is hollow down to the level of the soil. Imagine, then, a hole four feet long, and so narrow that a man thin as I am is obliged to reduce himself to the smallest possible compass, and then to slide feet foremost down a slope which leads to a cave six feet long, five feet wide, and three feet high. Planks placed crosswise, and supported by two strong beams, prevented the well crumpled by long use, constituted the bed. earth falling in from above. Six inches of straw, Five men could sleep there in a horizontal position, for even on one's knees the head had to be bent. Such is the place, my dear friend, into which I penetrated alone, my pistol in my mouth. Unfortunately they were not there. I only found a shoe, a clumsy wooden candlestick, a pipe, two broken glasses, a preserve pot, and some old rags, wretches evidently played at cards, for I found probably used for cleaning their guns. The several markers. Not finding the culprits, I left every thing in the same state, so that by leaving no indication of their place of refuge having been discovered I might have a chance of catching them. I accordingly returned in the evening, and placing my men in ambuscade, I passed the night horrors! A poisonous smell, no fresh air, and in their hole. Oh! my friend, what a night of myriads of flies devouring me; yet I would have passed ten nights had I been sure of catching them. I returned several other times by day and by night, but always without success. The peasants must have seen us roving about the place, and told them that their cache was discovered. I had, nevertheless, taken every precaution that prudence and cunning could devise.

The capture of the Duchess of Berry transferred Saint Arnaud from this most arduous service to the citadel of Blaye. It is

It is not our object here to follow out the fortunes of this gallant soldier in the wars of Africa. Mascara and Oran were followed by Laghouat and Isly. Saint Arnaud traversed the country in every direction, and was familiarized with almost every corner. From the command of the district of Milianah he succeeded to that of Orleansville. Promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1842, he was appointed to the command of the 53d Regiment in 1844. In 1845, the colonel witnessed from the mountains of the East the flames lighted by Pelissier, which consumed six hundred victims in the caves of Al Kantarah. The same year Al Bu Maza surrendered himself a captive to the lucky colonel of the 53d.

impossible not to respect the tone of his let of success! The Zouaves are the imperial ters upon this occasion. Not at all well af-guard of Africa, the old guard.” fected towards the unfortunate princess, of whom he wrote when he first saw her, "Qu'elle est pâle et qu'elle a mauvaise mine!" yet, when the secret which cast such ridicule over her heroism came out, Saint Arnaud does not indulge even in a sarcasm. It was at Blaye that the lieutenant became acquainted with Marshal Bugeaud, and the latter was so delighted at his translating his "Aperçu sur l'Art Militaire" into three different languages, that he attached him as aidede-camp to his own person. It was in this character that Leroy de Saint Arnaud repaired to Sicily with the duchess. When, on their arrival at Palermo, they were joined by the Count Luchesi, he observes that the latter did not pay the slightest attention to the child which the nurse held out to him in her arms, and that both the count and the duchess were exceedingly embarrassed.

Parting, on his return, from Marshal Bugeaud at Toulouse, Saint Arnaud had an opportunity of spending a few months with his wife at Brest. On joining his regiment at Bordeaux, news came of the troubles of 1834. "I have just written," he says, "to General Bugeaud, who took a prominent part in the affair. He commanded at the Hotel de Ville; an officer of the National Guards was wounded at his side. That was my place. How I regret that ball. Ah, my friend, how I shall fight when the occasion presents itself!”

In March, 1836, Saint Arnaud lost his first wife, and he was so affected by the loss that he sought for a voluntary exile with the Foreign Legion in Africa. This regiment, of which Saint Arnaud gives an amusing description, was at that time commanded by Bedeau. No sooner in Africa than the aspirations for military distinction, so ardently entertained amidst all his difficulties, presented themselves at Blidah and at Constantine. These great affairs were followed, in 1839, by the campaign against the Kabyles, and that again in 1840, by the Holy War. A severe wound received at the redoubtable Col de Mouzaïa caused his return to his own country in 1840-41. But he was soon again at the seat of war, in the character of chef de bataillon in a regiment of Zouaves under Cavaignac. These were the troops that he always took most pride in. "What men, brother," he would write of them; "what soldiers, what officers, what esprit de corps! What could one not do with such elements

Saint Arnaud adapted himself to the revlution of 1848 with all the pliability peculiar to a soldier of fortune. "We must let the torrent flow," he wrote; "to attempt to stop it would be a folly. The cataclysm will have an end, and then they will stop to reconstruct and repair with repentance. To pass life in committing follies and in regretting them is the history of the world!"

With the advent of Napoleon III. the scene, however, changed. Saint Arnaud, already general of division in Algeria, was called to a still higher command in Paris. The enemies of Saint Arnaud say, that whilst in Algeria, in 1833, General Rullière did not break the sword of the then Captain Leroy Saint Arnaud, because he did not wish to dishonor him; and that when Napoleon wanted a bold, clever, unscrupulous manone who was always more embarrassed in his pecuniary affairs than in his consciencehe knew where to find the instrument with which to strike the blow which he had long meditated.

The marshal's correspondence does not throw much light upon this eventful period of his career. Being at home, there was naturally no necessity for writing long letters, and his brother preserves his usual discreet silence. When nominated to the ministry, the marshal remarks: "The more serious events become, the more timid I get, not from fear, or from false modesty; I have confidence in myself, but it appears to me that I am not ripe for the ministry." On the 2d of December, 1851, he wrote, at four o'clock in the morning, to his mother:

Good dear mother, I write to you at a solemn moment. Two hours more and I shall give my