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in those localities. They revealed, as it 
were, the vestiges of an old surface of the 
earth where vegetation had flourished 
and man had possibly labored, now 
buried deep underground. But the gen¬ 
eral feature of the eruptions seem to 
have been sand, spouted up by “innu¬ 
merable jets of water, like fountains 
playing,” to a height of four feet. All 
masonry buildings within the area of 
extreme incidence of the earthquake 
were completely wrecked, massive 
bridges were broken to pieces, high em¬ 
banked roads were cracked and in many 
places subsided to the level of the adja¬ 
cent country. And all this ruin was 
effected in a few minutes, often in a few 
seconds.— N. T. Evening Post. 
HOW LOUIS XVIII TRIED TO KEEP 
THE STOLEN PAINTINGS 
A LTHOUGH there may be a desire 
* in France for an alliance with 
England, it is astonishing how glibly the 
newspaper writers can recount historical 
fallacies which are unfavorable to this 
country. A few days ago, in speaking of 
the harsh conduct of the Prussian troops 
in 1815 and their contemplated pillage of 
the St. Germain and St. Antoine quar¬ 
ters of Paris, a writer goes on to recount 
how the English were no less indifferent 
to the laws of civilized warfare. As an 
example, the redistribution of the pic¬ 
tures in the Louvre is introduced. From 
England it is said no artistic spoils were 
derived; nevertheless, English states¬ 
men claimed and carried off a portion of 
the works. It is needless to say the 
writer is unacquainted with the circum¬ 
stances of the case, of which the follow¬ 
ing is an abstract: Although royalty was 
restored to France, Louis XVIII grudg¬ 
ingly parted with the spoils brought to 
France by the Republican armies. He 
declared them to be national property. 
The weaker powers were disregarded. 
The King of the Netherlands found it 
impossible to recover the Flemish and 
Dutch examples taken from his cities. 
His Minister then appealed to Lord 
Castlereagh, who entrusted to the Duke 
of Wellington the duty of seeing justice 
done. As commander-in-chief of the 
allied armies he controlled the Nether¬ 
lands troops. After negotiations with 
Talleyrand, the Duke found there was 
no chance of getting back the pictures 
unless by the exercise of armed force. 
(Continued on page 15 .) 
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