THE FOUR GEORGES. We commence the publication to-day of the Inimitable hectares of the late William Make wace Thackeray on the "Four Georgos Some of our readers may remember when they were delivered in our city by the author. They , were then received with unbounded popularity, and although familiar to the English public, Lave not, until very recently, been published in .America. Carrying u3 as they do back to the time when England had kings, when the Dutch line of succession first began, and the people of Great Britain cared rather for a great than a patriotio king, they are both amusing and instructive. The Instruction is conveyed with all that genial pleasantry so characteristic of the author, who, though tnournei for as dead, yet speaks to ua through the telling sentences of his works. We shall continue the publication until the four lectures are completed. In the summer days we know of no other reading which is as light and as valuable as the serio-comio papers on the rival heirs of the House of llrunswick. These lectures are published iu full in the uniform edition of Thackeray's works, issued by Harper & Brothers, and for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. of this city. GEORGE TIIE FIRST. A very few years since 1 knew familiarly a lady who had been asked in murrlage bv Horace Walpolc; wbo had been patted on the head by tieorpe I. Tills larty had knocked at Johnson's door; had been intimate witu t'ox, the beautiful Georciaija of Devouhhire, and that brilliant Whig society 01 the relan of George III; had known the lmcheBs of Quecneberry, the patro ness of Gay and Piior, the admired youiifr beauty of the court of Queen Anne. I often thought, as I took my old frtend's band, ho with it 1 held on to men of the world, upvpn score vears the old society of wits and I conid travel back for of time have glimpses of Chesterfield, and the men Jsrummell, Selwyu, of pleasure: of Walpole and Conway; of Johnson, lievnolds. Goldsmith; ot North. Chatham w. castle; of the lair maid? of fc&hor of Georee I Pa court; of the German retainers of George I's; where Addie on was Secretary of 8tate; where Pick Steele held a place; whither the great Marlborough came with his fiery spouse; when l'ope, and Switt, and Bolicgbroke yet lived and wrote. Of a society so vast, busy, brilliant, it is Impossible in four brief chapters to give a complete notion; but we may peep here and there into that byeone world of the Georges, pee w hat tbey and their courts were like; glance at the people round tliem; look at past manners, laihlons, pleasures, and contract them witu our own. I have to say thus much by way of pre face, becau-e the subject of these lectures has been misunderstood, aud I have been taken to task for not having given grave historical trea tise,wiiich it never was my intention to attempt. Not about battles, about politics, about states men and measures of state, did I ever think to lecture you: but to i-ketch the manners and life ot the Old World; to amuse for a lew honrs with talk about the old society; and with the result of many a day's and night's pleasant reading, to try and while away a few winter evenings for jay hearers. Among the Gorman princes who sat under Luther at Wittenberg w as Duke Ernest of Cello. whose younser son, William ef Lunebere. was the progenitor of the illustrious Hanover'nn house miiP ie- ? In Great Erifain. ue William iXt r, . . vcuc, i nine t?"S Vi ten thousand people that lies on the TaYlway line between Hamburg and Hanover, in the midst of great plains of sand, upon the river Alier. When Duke William bad it, it was very humble wood-built place, with a great brick church, which he sedulously frequented, and in which he and others of his house lie bnrled. He was a very religious lord, and called William the Pious oy his small circle of subjects, over whom he ruled, till fate deprived him both of sight aud reason. Sometimes in his latter days, the good Duke had glimpses of mental light, when he would bid his musicians play the psalm tunes which he loved. One thinks of a descendant of his, two hundred years afterwards, blind, old, and lost of wits, sincins: llandel in Windsor Tower. William the Pious had fifteen children, eight daughters and seven sons, who, as the property left among them was small, drew lots to deter mine which one of them should marry and con tinue the stout race of the Gaelphs. The lot fell on Duke George, the sixth brother. The others remained single, or contracted lefthanded mar riages after the princely fashion of those days. It is a queer picture that of the old prince dying in his wood-built capital, and his seven sons tossing up which should inherit and trans mit the crown of Breutford. Duke George, the lucky prizeman, made the tour of Europe, during which he' visited the court of Queen Elizabeth; and in the year 1617 came back and settled at Zell, with a wife out of Darmstadt. Ills remaining brothers all kept their house at Zell, for economy's sake. And, presently, in due course, they all died all the honest dukes; Ernest, and Augustus, and Magnus, and George, and John and they are buried in the brick church of Brentford yonder, by the sandy banks of the Aller. Dr. Vehse gives a pleasant plimpse of the way of life ot our Dukes In Zell. "When the trumpeter on the tower has blown," Duke Chris tian orders Tiz., at 9 o'clock in the momma: and i in the evening, every one must be present at meals, and those who are not must go with out. None of the servants, unless it be a knave, shall eat or drink in the kitchen or cellar; or, without special leave, fodder his horse at the prince's cost. When the meal is served in the court-room, a page shall go round and bid oue be quiet and orderly, forbidding all oursiug, swear ing, and rudeness; all throwing about ot bread, Ixines, or roast, or pocketing of the same. Every morning at 7, the squires shall have their morning soup, and along with which, and din ner, they shall be served with their under-drink very morning except Friday morning, when there was no sermon and no drink. Every evening they shall have their beer, ann at niirht their sleep-dank. The butler is especially warned not to allow a noble or simple to coin the cellar: wine shall only be served at the prince's or councillor's table; and everv Mondav the honest old Duke Christian ordaini the ac counts shall be ready, and the expenses in the kitchen, the wine and beer cellar, the bakehouse and stable, made out Duke George, the marrylneduVe, did not stoD at home to partake of the beer aud wine and the sermons. He went about nghting wherever there was profit to be had. He served as eeue ral In the army of the circle of Lower Saxony the Protestant army; then he went over to the Emperor and fought in bis armies in Germany and Italy; and when Gubtavus Adolphus ap peared in Germany, Ge.rce took service as a Swedish General, and seized the Abbey of Hii. deshelm as his share of the plunder. Here, in the year 1C41, Duke George died, leaving four , aons behind him, from the youngest of whom descended our royal Georges. Under these chilflren of Duke George, the old, God fearing, simple ways or Zell appear to have gone out of mode. The second brother was constantly visiting Venice, and leading a lolly, wicked life there. It was the most jovial of all places at the end of the seventeenth cen tury; and military men, after a campaign , rushed thither as the warriors of the Allies rushed to Paris in 18U, to gamble and rejoice, and par take of all sorts of godless delights. This prince, then loving Venice aud it pleasures, brought Italian singers and dancers back with him to nniet old Zell, and worse still, demeaned him self by marrving a French ladvof birth quite inferior to his own Eleanor d'Olbreuse, from whom our Queen is descended. Eleanor had a crettv daughter, who Inherited a great fortune, which intTaraed her cousin, George Louis ol Hanover, with a desire to marry her; and so. with her beauty and her riches, she came to a "lt'u'toolong to tell how the four sons of Duke Georee divided his territories among tit", aud W, finally, they caine in posses TIIE DAILY sion or trie son or the youngest of the four. In this generation the Protestant faith was very v T "tMignished In the famllyj and then where should we tn England have gone for a f ,rifr" The third brother also took fldlght In Italy, where the priests converted him and his Protestant chaplmn too. Alas was said in Hanover once morei and Iuhan soprani piped their Latin rhymes in place of the hymns which William the Pious and Dr. Luther sang. Louis XIV gave this and other converts a splendid pension. Crowds ot Frenchmen and brilllaut French fashions came Into his court. It is in calculable how much that royal bigfile cost Germany. Every prince imitated the FroTieh Klne, and had his Versailles, his Wilhclmshoho or Ludwigsluft; his court and its splendors; his gardens laid out with stataes: his fountains. and waterworks. And Tritons; hlq r! nra and aRnrers, ana singers, ami hauler; his harem, with its inhabitants: his dinmnnrt ior these latter; his enormous fe'tivltics, his earning taoies, tournaments, ma-'querades. and banquets lasting a week long, lor which the people paid with their monpv ih wretches had it, with their body and very blood when they bad none; being sold by thousands by their lords and masters, who gayly dealt In Soldiers, Staked a TPfrimcnt iinnn thn rpri t fhn gamMiDg table, swapped a battalion against a dancing girl's diamond necklace, and, as it were, pocketed their people. As hup iews Eurooa v. books of travel in tho 'early part ol the lust cen tury, the lnnriacunp is awlul: wretched wastes. beggarly and plundered; half burned cottages, and trembling peasants gathering piteous har vests; gangs of such tramping along wilh bayo nets behind them, and corporals with canes and cat-o'-nine-tails to flog them to barracks. Bv these passes my lord's gilt carriage, floundering through tho ruts as he swears at the postilions, and toils on to the Keeldenz. hard by, but away from the noise aod brawling of the citi zens and buyers, is Wilhclmslu9t. or Ludwigs- ruhe, or Monbijon, or Versailles it scarcely matters which near to the city, shut out by woods from the beggared countrythe enormous, hideous, gilded, monstrous marble palace, where the prince Is, and the court, and the trim gardens, and huge fountains, and the forest where the ragged peasants are beating the game in (it is death to touch a featheri: and the inllv hunt sweeps bv with its uniiorm of crimson and gold: and the prince gallops ahead puffing his loyal horn; and bis lords and mistresses ride nfter him; and the stag ts pulled down; and the huntsman gives the Knife in the midst of a -chorus of bugles, and in time thecourt go home to dinner; and our noble traveller it may be tho Baron ot Polhiitz or the Count de Konigs mark, or the excellent Chevalier de Seingalt sees the proeessiou gleaming through the trim avenues of the wood, and hastens to the inn, and sends his noble name to the marshal of the court. Tuen our noble arrays himself in green and gold, or pink and Bilver, in the richest Paris mode, aud is introduced by the Chamber lain, aud makes bis bow to the jolly prince and the gracious princess; is picsented to the chic! lord? and ladies; und then comes supper, and a bank at faro, where he loses or wins a thousand pieces by daylicht. If it is a German court, you may add not a little drunkenness to this picture of high lile; but German, or French, or Spanish, if jou see out ot your palace windows beyond the trim-cut fore.t vistas, misery is lying out side; hunger is stalking about (be bare villages, listlessly toilowhiff precarious husbandry, plow ing stony fields with starved cattle, or tearfully taking in scanty harvests. Augustus is fat and jolly on his irone; he can knock down an ox, and cat t,ne almost; his mistress, Aurora von houiaicK, is me lovenesi, tue wittiest crea- , - , io uinuivuus MD LIUCPV HUU lUUSb brilliant in the world, and his feasts as splendid -. : iiiN iiiHiiMiiitm HrR inp nirrcraur oni mat- nsiuuce oi veisames. as lor xouis tue Great, he is more than mortal. Lift up your glances respectfully, and mark him eyeing Madame de FontaDges, or Madame de Montespan from under his sublime periwig, as he passes through the great gallery where Villars and Vendome, and erwlck, and Bossuet, and Ma6sillon are waiting. Can court be more splendid ? nobles and knights more gallant and superb? ladies more lovely? A grander monarch, or a more miserable, starved wretch than the peasant his subject you can not look on. Let us bear both of these types in mind, it we wish to estimate the old society properlv. Remember the glory and the chivalry? Yesl Remember the grace and beauty, the splendor and lofty politeness; the gallant cour tesy of Foutenoy, where the French line bids the gentlemen of the English guard to fire first; the noble constancy ot the old King, and Villars, his genera), who tits out the last army with the last crown piece from the treasury, and goes to meet the enemy and die or conquer for France at Denain. But round all that royal splendor lies a nation enslaved and ruined; there are people robbed of their rights; communities laid waste; lailh, justice, commerce trampled upon, Bna well nigh destroyed; nay, In the very centre of royalty itself, what horrible stains and mean ness, crime and shame 1 It is but to a silly hailot that some of the noblest gentlemen and some of the proudest women in the world are bowing down; it is the price of a miserable pro vince that the King ties in diamonds round his mistress1 white neck. In the first half of the laet century, I say, this is going on all Europe over. Saxony is a waste as well as Picardy or Artois, and Versailles is only larger aud not worse than Herrenbausen. It was the first Elector of Hanover who made the fortunate match which bestowed the race of Hanoverian sovereigns upon us Britons. Nine years after Charles Stuart lost his head, his niece Sophia, one of many children of another luckless, dethroned eovereicn, the Elector r-alaiine, married Ernest Augustus ot Berwick, and brought the reversion to the crown of the three kingdoms in her scanty trousseau. One of the handsomest, the most cheerful, sensible, shrewd, accomplished ol women was Sophia, daughter of poor Frederick, the wiuter King of Bohemia. The other daughters of lovely, un happy Elizabeth Stuart went oil into the Catholic Church; this one, luckily lor her family, re mained, I cannot say faithful, to the Reformed religion, but, at least, she adopted no other. An agent ct the French King's, Gourville, a convert himself, strove to bring her and her husband to a sene ol the truth, aDd tells us that he one day asked Madame the Duchess of Hanover of what religion her daughter was, theuapieity pirl of thirteen years old. The Duchess replied that the princess was of no re ligion an yet. They were waiting to know of what religion her husband would be, Protestant or Catholic, be.'ore Instructing her I And the Duke of Hanover, having heard of Gourville s proposal, taid that a change would be advan tageous to his house, but that he himself was too old to cbauge. This shrewd woman had such keen eyes that she knew how to shut them upon occasion, and was blind to many faults which It appeared her husband, the Bishop of Osnaburg and Duke of Hanover, committed. He loved to take his pleasure like other sovereigns was a merry prince, fond of Oinuer and th bottle; liked to go to Italy, as his brothers bait done before him: and we read how bo jovially sold 6700 of his Hanoverians to the seigniory of Veuice. They went Dravely off to the Morea, under com mand of Ernest's son, Prince Max, ana only 1400 of them ever came home Bgain. The Ger man princes sold a good deal ot this kind of stock. Vou remember how George Ill's Gov erunient purchased Hessians, and the use we made of them during the War of Independence. ibe ducats Duke Ernest got for bis soldiers ne spmt in a series of the most brilliant enter I.me,,.,f Nevertheless, the jovial prince was '?m'CK'' an(1 kePt steady eye upon his SuU iCKr('u-w 110 achieved the electoral dig rtLZ he married bis eldest son. Sfi M' dutiful cousin of Zell; and nht 5fti"4S???1outltt command of armies to 5?. Tk?nV hfhU flde' D0W on that-he lived on, taking hU pleasure, and scheming his schemes, a merry, wise prince enough notT I fear, a moral prince, of which kind we shall -fcteuVreersVeW SPeCltt'e- the' bourse of Ernest Augustus had seven children in all some of whom were "apSce. against the parental sytem of DroinoipmtuM and non-division of property whlchThe E?S ordained. "Gustchen," the electress writes about her second son "poor Gm Ms thrA rft and Lis lather will gW mm no ftrl laugh io the day, and cry all nk-ht about it for, 1 am a looi with my children." lur! of tie' sU1 EVENING TEIgiranADELrilU, TUESDAY, dled figMIng against the Turks, Tartar., French mfn linn At ihnJ. - ' . "i'""" """iuMinrn1 Tartar, French ai?Ltbc,L cou,Prel. revolted, fled to on wrhi;.2,h,dauKMpr. whoso early edu- Koro was H.T,"T"'fl:. mention, was married to settle,! finally on ttJA'n i0Q nirl,K KlcctreM Sophia, who had been Ev2fc religion and marry the . " ' u u uroiiior of the French KIom w h!f oncst benrtwas always with 5"fr?n.?.nt dear old Deuetchland. though ' " oooj WM. connne(1 Bt pri9 or Marly, or Vcrsailles-hR, eft ln her enor mows correspondence (part of which has been printed in German and French), recollections of the Elcclrcss, and of George her son. Eliza- dcid narioue was at Osnaburg when George was porn t,ibiuj. tine narrowly escaped a whip ping for being in the way on that auspicious uhj. piuk ri-cuiB uut io nave iikcu utile ueorge, nor George grown up; and represented him as diou6ly hard, cold, and silent. Silent he may have been: not a jolly prince, like his father before him; but a prudent, quiet, selfish poten tate, going his own way, managing bis own affairs, end understanding his own interests remarkably well. Iu his father's lifetime, and at tho head of the Hanover forces of fcOOO or 10,000 men, George served the Emperor on the Danube, against Turks, at the siege of Vienna, in Italy, and on the Rhine. When he succeeded to the electo rate ne handled his affairs with great prudenco and dexterity. He was very much iiked by his people of Hanover. He did: not show Ills feel ings mucn, nut ne cried heartily on leaving them, as they used for joy when he came back. He showed an uncommon prudence andcool- ncss ot Dehavior when he came into bis king- uom; exnioiting no elation; reasonably doubttal whether he should not be turned out some day; looking upon himself only as a lodger, and uinniiiM, mc inosi oi nis unci tenure at St. James' and Hampton Court; plundering, it is true, somewhat, and dividing among his German lol- juweis; oui wnat couiu De expected of a sove reign who at home could sell his cubjects at so many ducats per head, and made no scruple in sodisposing to them? I fancy a considerable shrewdness, prudence, and even moderation in his ways. The German Protestant was acheaper, and better, and kinder Kin? than thn Pathoii Stuart in whose chair he sat, aud so far loyal lur-uRinuuinai ne let England govern herself. HaVillg these lertnrna In ninm T moHo If m r. business tO V Bit that uolv prnrllo In wMph nn. Georges were nursed. The old town of Hanover 111 UP l lOOK Still PrettV Tniirh in tho mo nrhon Georee Louis lelt it. The gardens and pavilions of Herrenhansen are scarce changed since the day when the stout old Electress Sophia fell down in her last walk there, preceding but a few weeks to the tomb James li s daughter, whose death made way lor the Brunswick Stuarts in England. The IwO first rOTftl finnfWH anrl fhnir fotlior Ernest Augustus, had ouite roval notions re garding marriage; and Louis XIV and Charles II scarce distinguished themselves more at Ver. saillcs or St. James than these German Sultans in their little city on the banks of the Lcine. Yon may see at Herrenhansen thevprv nmiif. theatre in which the Platens danced and per formed masques, and sang before the Elector and his tons. There are the very fauns and dryads of stone still glimmering through the branches, still grinning and piping their ditties of no tone, as in the days when painted nymphs hung garlands round them; appearing under their Italy arcades with, gilt crooks, guiding rams. Witt gilt horns; descended from "ma chines' in the guise ot Diana or Minerva, and delivered Immense allegorical compliments to the princes returned home from the campaign. That was a curious state of morals and politics in Europe; a queer consequence of the triumph of the monarchical principle. Feudalism was beaten down. Tho nobility, in its quarrels with the crown, had pretty well succumbed, and the monarch was all in all. He became almost divine: the proudest and most ancient gentry of the land did menial service for him. Who should carry Louis XIV's candle when he went to bed ? what prince of the olood should hold the King's shirt when his most Christian Majesty changed that garment? the French memoirs oi the seventeenth century are full of such details and squabbles. The tradition is not yet extinct in Europe. Any of you who were pre sent, as myriads were, at that splendid pageant, the opening ot our Crystal Palace in London, must have seen two noble lords, great officers of the household, with ancient pedigrees, with embroidered coats, and stars on their breasts, and wands in their hands, walking backwards for near the space of a mile, while the royal procession made its progress. Shall we wonder snau we De angry snail we laugh at these Old World ceremonies? View them as you will, according to your mood; and with scorn or with respect, or with anger and sorrow, as your tem per leads you. Up goes Ciesler's hat upon the Eole. Salute that symbol of sovereignty with cartfelt awe, or with a sulky shrug of acqui escence, or wnn a grinning ooeisance; or with a stout rebellious Nol clap your own,beavcr down on your pate, and refuse to doff it to that spangled velvet and flaunting feather. I make no comment upon the spectator's behavior; all I say is that Gesler's cap is still up in the mar ket place of Europe, and not a few folks are still kneeling to it. . Put clumsy, high Dutch statues in place of the marbles of Versailes; fancy Herrenhausen waterworks in the place of those of Bfarly; spread the tables with Schweinskopf, Speck suppe, Leber kuchen, and the like delicacies, in place ot the French cuuine; and fancy Frau von Klelmansepge dancing with Count Kam menunker Quirinl, or singing French songs with the most awful German accent; imagine a coarse Versailles, aud we have a Hanover before us. "I am now got into the region of fButy.'1,wrte8 Mar Wortley.from Hauover, in 171b; all the women have literally rosy cheeks, snowy loreheads and necks, jet eyebrows, to which may be generally added coal black hair, .these per ectious never leave them to the day ot v ir Wth, and have a very line effect by candle light; but I could wish they were hand some with a little variety. They rescmole one another as Mrs. SlmnnMiri n Qf uriiuin and aie in as much danger of melting away by too nearly approaching the fire." The sly Mary Wortley saw this painted seraglio of the first i.eorge at Hanover the year alter his accession to the British throne. There were great doings and feasts there. Here Lady Mary saw George fr i .0, v can te" J00' without flattery or par tinlity," she says, "that our young prince has all accomplishmenta that is posnlbla to have at his age, with an air of sprightlines and under standing, and a something so very engaging in his behavior that needs not the advantage of his rank to appear cbarmiug.B I find elsewhere similar panegyrics upon Frederick, Prince of Wales, George IPs son: and upon George III, or course, and upon George IV in an eminent degree. It was the rule to be dazzled by princes, and people's eyes winked quite honestly at that royal radiance. 1'he electoral court at Hanover was numerous pretty well paid, as times went; above all, paid with a regularity which few other European courts could boast of. Perhaps you will be amused to know how the electoral court was com posed. There were the princes of the house in the firBt class; the second, the single field marshal of the army (the contingent was 18,000, Pollnitz says, and the Elector had other 14,000 In.P,n JP'ty Then follow, in due order, if uort'(i civil and military, the working EfhX1"101'' the a'1 chamberlain, high fit moil, the c?urt' hia masters of the horse, h. !"pinera8 of cavalry and infantry, in the fourth class, down to the majors, the hof- h t,rJ1'geiIhe secretaries or assessors, of w e'i?' of whom were noble. ih'w v? P",he all chamberlain 2000-a n ul I 1 Rbout three shillings ot our money. ;e7two c!"nrjerlain8, and one forth princess; five gentlemen ofthe chamber; and five gentlemen ushers; eleven paes and personals to educate these young noblemen-such a a governor, a preceptor, a fecht-meibter, or fencing master, and a dancing ditto, this latter with a handsome salary of 400 thalers. There were l, tnltI ftnd court PhJslclans, with 800 aud 600thalei85aeourt barber, 600 tnalers; a court orranist, two muslkanteu, four French fiddlers, twelve trumpeters, and a bugler; so that there was, plenty of music, profane aud pious, in Hanover, There wtre ten chamber waiters, ,n2 W n,7:l. r "very; maitre d'hot. l "l1 n tl . tUe,k'tchen; a French conk abodyc.-'okjW cooks; M cook awst ants two brateri Afeis, r mnsrers of tho roa-t (one fancies enormous pi,8 turning slowly, ItS 0net ' ? ,,ie roB,t bcladling tho 2rlPi?in?i' rT ker; a j ie baker; aud, finally, three scullions, at the modest remunol Jnlr.nw., J?Ven tn)- n the sugar chamber Sn .KlorP''trJ c ,,oks (for the la lies, n3 doubt); seven ollicets In ti wine and beer eel- he ?rrnl ...w"8 Wcro Bl h.'drcd horses m If 7J ? i eUbl7,-'o less than twenty teams of princely carriage hordes, eight to a team, niLn Bc.Dmp?;ourteen potion "i nineteen ostlers; thirteen helps, beside, srnlthW. carriage master,., horse doctors, and other attendants of .mi"We female .ttendants were no o numerous: 1 grieve to find but a dozen or four teen of them about the electoral premise, ana only two washerwomen for all tD Tcourt These functionaries had not so much to do aV in th present age. I own to find a pleasure in these small beer chronicles. I like to people the Old World wiih itsevery-day figures and inhabitants -not so much with heroes fighting immense battles and inspiring repulsed battalions to en gage, or statesmen locked op in darkling cabi nets and meditating pondcrouslaws ordire con spiracles, as w ith people occupied with their every-day work of pleasure my lord and lady hunting in tho forest, or dancing in the court or bowing to their serene highnesses as they pass in to dinner; John Cook and his proces sion bringing the meal from the kitchen; the lolly butlers Dearing la the flagons from the cellar; the stout coachman driving the ponde rous gilt wagon, with eight cream colored horses in housings of scarlet velvet and morocco leather; a postilion on the leaders, and a piir, or hnll-a-dozcn of running footmen scudrtinsr along by the side of ih vehicle, with conical cans, long silver-headed maces, which they poised as they ran, and spleudld jackets laced all over with silver and gold, I fancy the citi zens' wives and their daughters looking out from the balconies; and the burghers, over their beer and mum, rising up, cap m hand, as the cavalcade passes through the toyn with torch-bearers, trumpeters blowing their lusty cheeks out, and squadrons of jack-booted life guardsmen, girt with shining cuirasses, and bestriding thundering chargers, escorting hU highness' coach from Hanover to nerrenhausen; or halting, mayhap, at Madame Platen's country house ot Monplaisir, which lies hall way be tween the summer palace and the Residenz. In the good old times ot which I am treat ing, while common men were driven off by herds, and sold to fight the Emperor's enemies on the Danube, or to bayonet King Louis' troops ol common men on the Rhine, noblemen passed from court to court, seekii g service with one pnace or the other, and naturally taking com mand ofthe Ignoble vulgar soldiery which bat tied and died almost without hope of promotion. Noble adventurers travelled from court to court in search of employment; not merely noble males, but noble lemales too; and if these latter were beauties, and obtained the favorable1 notice of princes, they stopped in the courts, became the favorites of their serene orroyal highnesses, and received great sums of money and splendid diamonds, and were promoted to be duchesses, marchionesses, and the like, and did not fall much in public esteem lor the manner In which they won their advancement. In this way Mademoiselle do Querouallles, a beautiful French lady, came to London on a special mis sion of Louis XIV, and was adopted by our grateful country and sovereign, and figured as Duchess of Portsmouth, In this way the beautiful Aurora of Konigsmarck, travelling about, found favor in the eyes of Augustus of Baxony, and became the mother of Marshal Sflxe, who gave us a beating at FonteDoy; and in this manner the lovely sisters Elizabeth and Meluslna of Melsaenhne.h (whn had oiinoii been driven out of Paris, whither thev had travelled on a like errand, by the wise Jealousy nf t.hp fpmftln fuvnritp thoro In nstaonaBtst, ... neyed to Hanover, and became favorites ot the serene house there reigning. CaIS Ho be continued in our next Issue. LUMBER. 1 RfV7 -SELECT WHITE PINE BOARDS CHOICE PANKL AUD 1st COMMON, is feetlonc 4-4, 8-4. S-4. 2. tX, 8. nd4 Inch WHITE PINK. PANKL PATTERN PLANK. IAltOE AND bUPEKlOR BX'OCK ON HAND, -IGArr-BTJILDING! BUILDING J I . UUILD1NO! iUMUEKI LUMBER) LUMBER! 4-4 CAROLINA FLOORING. 6-4 CAROLINA FLOORING. 4-4 DELAWARE FLOORING. 6-4 DELAWARE FLOORING. WHITE PINE FLOORING. ASH FLOORINO. WALNUT FLOORING. bPKUCJffi FLOORING. ISTEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. PLAKTERING LATH. i QW7 CEDAR AND CYPRESS fcHINOLEH. LONG CEDAR HfllNGLEH. bHORT CEDAR BHWSGLEeJ. COOPER BITINGLEH. FINE ASSORTMENT FOR HALE LOW. NO. 1 CEDAR LOGS AND POSTS. 18b7 LUMBER FOR UNDEBTAKER3 t LUMBER FOR L'NDERTAKKRs I RED CEDAR, WALNUT, AND PINE. 1 CAT ALBANY LUMBER OF ALL KINDi lOU I ALBANY LUMBER OF ALL K.LNDS, SEASONED WALNUT. DRY POPLAR, CHERRY, AND ASH, OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. MAHOGANY, ROSEWOOD, AND WALNUT VENEERS. 1 QfcV CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS. lOU I CIGAR-BOX MANUFACTURERS. SrANIBlI CEDAR BOX BOARDS. 1 Qt7 SPRUCE JOISTI SPRUCE JOIST I lOU I SPRUCE JOIST! i iwa 14 to S2 jfjKiurr long. SUPERIOR NORWAY SCANTLING. MAULE, BROTHER A CO., S 1 rpj No. tS, SOUTH STREET. u, m S. BUILDERS' MILL, Auk. 84, SO, AND SS S. FIFTEENTH ST., ESLER & BItO., Proprietors. ways on band, made ofthe Best Seasoned Lumber, at low prlots. WOOD MOULDINGS, BRACKETS, BALUSTERS AND NEWELS. Newell, Balusters, Bracket and Wood Mouldings. WOOD MOULDINGS. BRACKETS, BALUSTERS, AND NEWELS. Walnut and Ash Hand Railing, 8, 3X. and 4 Inches. BUTTERNUT. CHKSNUT, aud WALNU1 MOULDING lo order. S 12 c. PERKINS, LUMBER MERCHANT. 6uceeKorto U Clark. Jr., NO. 324 CHRISTIAN BTKEET. Constantly ou band a Uuge aud varied assortment of Building Lumber. tL. m wm ' s) I sf B-" m f U.Y.L K H m L ll 4.PR0PERTY AT PRIVATE SALE JfoElTKIN&CO. AWHIieSi WAUOH COVEBS, BAS, ETC. H yon want an extra Awning nty cheap, lei our aw mug makers lake toe measure, aud make It from alt'tor KXiO bosplUtl lenu, lately purchased by us, many ot wblch are entirely new. and ot ibe best la ouuoe duck. Also. Government Saddles and Uarueas of sll klmm.eic PlTKIiv A CO., Illm N OS. R87 and (88 Nonb FRONT Street. pATENT WIRE WORK FOB RAILINGS, STORE FRONTS,' G U A RDS. PA RTITIONS, ETi COAL BCREENS, FOURDRINIEU WIRES, Klf Manufactured by I. WALKER WOKS, It? 8m No. 11 N. SIXTH Street WILLIAM S. G R AN T COM MISSION MERCHANT, NO. it B. DELAWARE Aveuue, PbuadelpbU, MINT rOB Pqpout's Gunpowder. Ktnued Nitre, Charcoal, Etc. W. Baker A Co.'s Cbuoulate, Cocoa, aud Broiua. Crocker Bros. A CO.' Yellow Metal Ultealblni;, Bull, and Nail. 141 JULY 1G, 1867. FINANCIAL OTICE TO THE HOLDERS CP TBI LOAM CF THE COMMONWEALTH Oi7 PENNSYLVANIA CK AFTF.B JPI.T J, X836, AM BEFORE JCW S, 1800.' Holders of the following LOANS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OP PENNSYLVANIA are requested to present them for payment (Principal and Interest) at Till Farratri' and SJachanlcV Natlamal Dank of Philadelphia, Loan of March SO, 1830, due March i, 1858. " February 16, 1833, due July 1, 1858. " March 27, 1833, due July 1, 1858. " January 26. 1830, due July 1, 1859. " June 7, 1839, due August 1, 1859. " March 80, 1832, due July 1, 1800. April 6, 1832, due July 1, 1800. Also, all BANK CHARTER LOANS due prior to July 2, 1800. All of the above LOANS will cease to (JlRW Interest after August 15, 1867. john w. heart, governor. John f. iiabtbanft, auditor-general. WILLIAM II. KEKfBLE, 6 15 Stuth U 15 STATE TREASURER, UAttItfSBURG, JUNE 29, 1867. TO THE HOLDERS OT TUB LOANS or TBI COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DUE JULY 1, 1868. THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SINKING FUND WILL RECEIVE PROPOSALS UNTIL SEPTEMBER 3, 1807, FOR THE REDEMP. TION OF ONE MILLION OF DOLLARS OF THE Loans of this Commonwealth DUE JULY 1, 1868. ; Holders will address their proposals to the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, Harris, burg, Pennsylvania, and endorsed "PROPO SALS FOR THE REDEMPTION OF LOANS OF 18C8." FRANCIS JORDAN, SECRETARY OF STATE. JOHN F. IIABTBANFT, AUDITOR-GENERAL. WILLIAM II. KEMBLE, STATE TREASURER. 7 2 tuthst9 3 7 3"10S SEVEN - THIRTY NOTES CONVERTED WITHOUT CHARGE INTO THE NEW 43 - O S. BONDS DELIVERED AT ONCE. COMPOUND INTEREST NOTES WANTED at highest market rates. WM. PAINTER dt CO., 8i! NO. kOl'TII THIRD STREET. SEVENTH NATIONAL BANK OP PHILADELPHIA, NORTH WKiiT CORKER OFFOVBT1I AND MARKET STREETWJ UIOBGE W. II ILL, PBESIDENT, K. B IIALL.CAftUIEB, OFJ-KBB EVERY AD VANTAGE TO DEPOSITORS Tank ere', U t chan la', and 11 anuikct urers' Aooount stJicittd tisuiatusm FINANCIAL. QANKINC HOUSE" or Jay Cooke & Co., NOS.I18 AND 114 S. TnlRD ST., FHILsJ I Dealers in all Government Securltieei OLD S-SOs WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR HEW. A LIREBAL DIFFERENCE ALLOWED, Compound Interest Notes Wanted, IHTKRKAT ALLOWED Clf KOEPOSITS, t Collections made. Btocks bought and sold on Commies' on. UQ0 Ppeelal business acoommodaUona reserved (or ladles. isua 7 3-10s, ALL SERIES, CONVERTED INTO Five-Twenties of 1865, JANUARY AND JULY. WITHOUT CHARGE. BONDS DELIVERED IMMEDIATELY, PS & BROTHER, lo-2jrp NO. 40 s.Tni p street; U. O. SECURITIES A SPECIALTY. SMITH. RAKnniPH & nn .-j ...... w w a. a HI w Wl BANEES AND BROKERS, H0.1SS THIRD ST-NO. S NASSAU TH PHILADELPHIA. MXW TOBK ORDERS FOB STOCKS AND GOLD EXaV CCTED IN PHILADELPHIA AND HEW TOBK i u WAl ChhS JEWELRY, ETC. LEWIS LADOMUS & CO. Diamond Pealera and JetreUars, MO. 80S CnESNCT ST PHILADELPHIA Would InTlU the attention or purchasers to tbeU large and handsome assortment of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVEB-WABE, ICE PITCHERS ln great variety. ETC BTC" A large assortment ol small STUDS, tot eyelet holes. Just received. WATCHK8 repaired In the beat manner, and guaranteed. ,14p WATCHES, JEWELUY. JpsT W. W. OASSIDr, NO. IS SOOTH SECOND STREET, Bto)c'ko"IntIr0ly BeW nd ost carefully .elected AMERICAN AND GENEVA WATCHES JEWELRY, SILVER-WARE, AND FANCY ARTICLES OP EVERY DESCRIPTION, soluble FOB BRIDAL OB HOLIDAY PBESENTS An examination will show my atoclt to be nnanr. passed In quality and cheapness. unsar Particular attention paid to repairing. gij G. RUSSELL & CO., NO. a NORTH SIXTH STREET, IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN -FINE WATCHES, FRENCH CLOCKS, CJOLD JEWELRY, AND 1 SOLID SILVEB-WABE. HENRY HARPER. No. 5QO ARCH Stroot, .uanuiaciurer and Dealer la WATCHES, FINE JEWKLBY, SILVER-PLATED WABE, AND H SOLID IILVKK.wiDn ' w WEI. C.&A. PEQUIGNOT, Manufacturers of Gold and Sliver TYatch Cases, XMPOBTXBS AND BEALXBS IS WATCHES. Offlc-No. IS Bouth SIXTH Street, Manufactory-No, as Eouth FIFTH Ktreet, 4 1 PHILADELPHIA. LEGAL NOTICES. T ETTEKS OF ADMINISTRATION UPON TUB bn edtoJthaai U WoOX,l deceased, h.Vln, tcHhJ ?.ld " "den"ned. all perou. ndebte- UitfiU lO tuti iftiuo tu pruswuii BAMUEL II. WOOD. AdmlnUtrator. Orhls iin, Ko. tJHOKfcKNWIC'lt Hfreet. 8 " lu6t No. 2JB South Flk'VH btroeU o O R N E X C II A N Q 1 J O TT SAS MANUFAerORY. JOHN T. H A I r. ic v . rin T.T yh .... -KHUVKD TO . iu corner of MA HK KT aud WATER BtreeM, TW a Al I in JT( 1)11 ICfc, DEALERS IN bAUti AND BAGGING urain, Flour, ball, uir-J'hMpal of Ime,Bo sj ian1 IUU" otmN Y BAOS constantly on ham )vxj T SAiutx. lAum Cawj-mim,
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