Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 13, 1873, Page 11

THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNI REGOLLECTIONS OF A GRITIG. The Autoblography of Ilenry Fothergill Chorley, Mo cencen of No P Willle, Ly flesslngton, Count Orwny, Wanlter Bavage Londor, Lord Lytton, Snme= ucl Rogors, Panl do Tack, Southoy, and Other Ero . Fron the New York Times, Tho caroer of Mr. Ohorloy might be clied na on {llustration of tho ill-uatured nesortion thot eritiea aro broken-down or unsuccessful authors, Tor thirty-fivo yenrs ho held o prominent posl- tion on tho stalt of tho London Athénaum, dolug much enroful work in tho way of literary and musieal eritielsm ; but the veutures ol his 0wt which ho made during this samo poriod fu * tho way of plnys, dramas, aud novels, wero nourly all such complote falluros that, ot one timo, wo find him exclaimiug, * Bavein the more Onancial view, I do ot earo much about profit, but it fa dronry work to write on and on and mako no way,” This Inck of approoiation of his Inbors, aud tho atmosphero thrown around his onrly youth by tho fact that his family wero Quakers, and that ho was compolled to smothor Lis literary and nrtistio tastes for a porind, bo- causo his frionds insisted upon his drudging away at the dosk of a counting-houso in Liver~ Tool, teuded to rendor him o ascotio in disposi- $ion that he uaturally developed into n CRITIO OF TUE SEVERER HORT, ond in the labors of that chilling profession tho laxgor part of his lifo was spont. 1t scoms curi~ ©ous that, whilo lio was 8o keenly sonsitivo to tho critieisme upon his own original productions, ho could not only doal morcileasly with thoso of othera whom ho gnw atruggling in the samo walk of lifo, but that he could also maintain, na ho sooms to havo done, real indifferanco to tho aui- mositios which bis own moveritios arousod. Doubtless tho rotaliation thus provoked provod n sorious obataclo in the way of Lis litorary suc- cess. Not only did the Athenaum itsolf eriticise his productions coolly, but from numerous other dources ho had abundant proof that the enomies whom Lis too eaustio pen had called into oxist- enco woro leeenly on the lookout for lum. Ono writer, for instance, spoke in o published ro- viow of onio of his works of tho * Chorleys and chaw-bacons of literature,” and from & private adiniror ho onco_ recoived n lettor, written in vory black ink, and beginning *“you wona! 1" Of theso coarso porsonalitios AMr. _Chorloy vrites: “Ican truly sny thoy only disturbod mo inrsmuch us thoy placed hard matorial obsta- cles in tho way of iy maintaining myself as o litorary man," Thoso annoyauces, liowover, bad tholr compeneations in the friendship of numerous lxlmmonu emiueut in literaturo, art, nud musie, with whom his profession threw him in sontnat, and who woro putiont enough to bear with tho cceentricitios, and discorning enough to recognize tho worth aud ability of tits siern eritic. Still tho multitudo, ove those direelly intarested in literary mntlors, taroly cara nbout the lifo of o eritic. ~ Aftor tho worfld hns pussed its, judgment upon an_nuthor or a composer it s of 'vory little moment whother onoor nuother way have prodicted Lis snccess, but the appotite for reminiscences of thoso who mny liave boen popular fuvorites caunob bo apponsed, and it i ihis desire for u kuowledzo of tho mon und women whom Mr. Chorley know that will sceuts for theso volumos o lrgo circlo of interested readern, Mr. Chorley's rocollections of U8 OWN FAMILY are worth an alltsion, An nunt of whom ho tells was distinguished by not & littlo rendiness and wit, 8 tho following fucident will show. Whilo staying with womo friouds in a country louse, the family was surprisod one day by tho descout upon them of o large party” who counted on fiuding a dinnor. Lverything but tho dessort was flually provided, s, for this part of tho ropust, nothing could bo foind aave 2 basket of hurd groen peurs, set asido for stow- ing. 'Thove, the wlimsteal givl insisted, should bo presented at the proper tune, When slie saw tliom coming, khe oxclauned in a voico of de- lightod surprivo, *“Aro not theso tho famous Cloopatra pears #* Tho strategem was succes ful; “the dish was cleared, sud * Cleopaten oars bocamo u byword in the family us & sym- ol of much that can bo mudo to pows mustor, 2ud ovon become pupular, It sesmy rather odd that onoof Mr, Chorley's storuly critical temper should hovo counted as ouo of his life-long and most voluod frionds o writor who produced so much that was puroly superflcial as did the iate N. P, WILLIS, Mr. Cherloy mot hiw in 1833, while traveling in laly. Howaysof bim: **Thoro was somothing vory agreouble and fagcinating in Lis munner— o sort of goutle tlattory that made you foel as if he had becomo peeulinely intorested in you.” Hulf apologetically, be adds, * I have "boen always too trone 10 atiach mysalf to any one who would lot mo, 80 took him up on his own sbowing. Then ko was a litorary man of my own age, aud about my own menans, with gy much lens of thought as ho hind moro of clover- vess. AndI beliove for o timo Lo did like ma i his way; gave mo good advico abont dross, manners, &c.—a little too magnificently I now think, and certainly wns of uso Lo me in making me modulate my voi Wo passed a part of evory duy togother; dreamed droama and schomed schiomes, and canvassed our tailors' bills, ete.” "This last touch is thoroughly cunr— actetlstic of tho mau he was deseribing, us isalso Mr, Cuorley's staiemont that My, \Willis left Londou at “that timo fall of the intention of marrying a Scoteh lody with red haw, whom ho Insisicd bad fullen in lovo with him. M, Willis fancicd thut, Lady Blowsington, too, \was smitton, aud he hada “boxtull of locks of hair as {ro® phies of his Continental Don Giovannism," Mr. Chorley, by the way, owed to Mr, Willis an introduction to LADY DLESSINGTON, and her frioudship scoms to have becn one of the brightest pussages in his not vory chesrful life. Suo is deseribod ny having boen possessed of wonderful vivacity, and of a remarkablo power of entertaintug bLorsoif by lier own storios, the leenness of an Irishman’ in re artee, atrango turns of language, and bright touches of character, Her taste in everything was to- ward the gay, tho unpmb, the luxurious, but' on tho whole excollently good. lier 0y0 was as guick us lightning, her resources woro many and original.” Mr. Chorley ropels indignantly tho chargo that klio was o cold-blpoded and unserap. alous adventuress, aud elaimd that the ‘‘courage with which she clung to her nttachmonts long after they brought her only shamo and HOXTowW, spoko for tha aifcotiouate hieart which uo luxury zould spoil and no vieissitudos wour," OF COUNT D'0nyAY'S quaint aud airy wit wo linve one or two admira- ble specimens. When Sir Henry Bulwor wns seut on u mission to Lonstantinoplo, * Quelie be- tice, wou thu Count's oxclamation, *"f'o send Aiw there amovy those Turks, with then beards, their shawls, thoso big, handsoma followe, o lit- Ho man Liko that] They might ay well have sent ono whitebait down the Dardanelles to glvo tho Turks an idea of English fish.” On one ocea- sion tho Count was seated at somo dinnor party ext Lady Hollund, who happoned to bo in ono of hor imporious bumors, Bho dmp{uxd bor nap- kin ; tho Count pieked it up gallsutly ; then hor fan, then her foik, thon hor spoon, 'thon Lor Juse—oach article the Count ga lnm.]y restored 0 Lier, but at Jast, when she dropped hor nup- sin a sccond llmnl ho turned and callod to ona af tho footmon, * Put my couver! on the floor,” 10 oxclaimed, 1 vil. finish my dlanor thove; it #ill bo 50 much more conveniout to my Lody Holland,” WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR romes boforo us at oue of Lnd{ Blessington's soirees. Mr. Chorloy deseribos him as having iho duest mon's houd ho had over wsen, 1fo bl <bo Johnsoninn disposition to tyranuizo in his ialk, aud lay down the law; but this was ro- strained and refined by an Old-World courtosy ind doferenco toward” hiy bright hostoss, for whichs chivaliy is tho ouly right word, Now and thon, Lowover, Landor would broak ont into potu[nm aud puradoxical romnrks, as he hul» on- ud to do tu tho courso of o couversation with M, Itio, the nuthor of Art Chretien, of all tlngs in she world chaosing to atlack tho Psnlms, Lady Llesuin h hor quick tact, notioing thut cod under Lundor's irroveront oriti- clams, skillfully turned the discussion by romark- ing in bor arch, inimuablo way, * Do writo somethiug bouter, Mr., Luudor,” It lmr:’wnml thut ot theso wolroos and olsa. wheto, Mr. Chorloy was thrown wlo froquont ontaes with LOND LYT(ON, 1o describes him ns nmazingly salf-concoitad,— *ta thoroughly untin clwractory but thon it 'y tho richest satin.” o mudo porsonul apnunr. uneo his idol, rod veluod Voltairo ss much qn Lolng & tall man as on his satires, cssuys, &o, domo ndvorso critioising which Mr, Ohorley passed upon some of Bulwor’s productions ine !umlpta their friendship, but the broach seoms to buvo boon Loaled Inter {n lifo, Tho slighth put upon him oocssionally by the mon of mark whom ho mat are now and then frankly roluted by Mr. Chorloy, BAMUEL ROULIA, SATURDAY, DECIHMBLL hiflory; tho world ond the fathor was lato old man, With onnod nt the erimo, oft_ & lonaly nnd deso- THE LAST PRINCE OF CONDE.* n'Ens[hlou oxpired the tho poot-banker, sooms to Linvo concoived n dlg- last haopo that the splondid lino of Condoe liko for tho oritle, which lod him to troat him A T i ould be perpetuated ; tho oxiled I'rinco bohold ith grasuitous and boorlsh rudonoan, — What- A True Romance, i il £ Insb of (o saon Whicls liad 80 Jong evor tho caso might bo," writes M, Chorlay, fllumined tho annals of the monarchy, ** Mr. Rogors did his beat to make mo fool and uncomtortablog and 1t was ofton douo by ro- Amnll ' ‘bon retribution eamo. Napo- From Appletons! Journal, Tho day of Bourbon rof n eamo. Napo- leon, acourgod at Waterloo, dminurm\ from poating the eamo diseonragomont, Tho sconn Louis Philippo had sat upon tho throns vacated the whirlpool of Europoan politica; Louls XVIIL. would b a dinnor of elght, nt wlhich ho wonld by his distant kineman, Charlos X,, a fow days | found himsolf at lagt securo on the throna of his sny loud onough tobo honrd: “Who fs that moro than a month. With his wminblo wifo and | fathers; and among his first ncts wos o sume young mau with red hair# mosning mo. The Tiis int i og famil Dildron, ho had | MONS to the muhmlgneblnnnn. 80 long oxiles nud answor would bo, * Ar, OLIm'Iey," otu,, olo.; 6 futeroating young family of child tor, b hiay wanderors, to roturn to thelr estates and resurmo * Nevor hieard of him bofora, " g tho rojoindor; | Just transforred his houscliold pouatos from th thoir titles, Among thoso who avalled thom- after which Rogors would turn to his dinnor, liko nineanes, might unfold his napkin and oat his #oup in ponco, tho most gratultonsly ill-naturcd speech of whi one who, having disposed of n Chorloy wa# the victim, ho broug] himsolf by an not of Dolitenosa to Rogora, an “antiont concert Mr, Bho wna one of Togors' Chorloy happencd to not croophig down the sido avonue, benclion, at o loss for a aont, nm} nroso, romarkin, rimo “favorites, for Ia hnt—¢ Com, " cordial way, tlowan, (ixing his dead himsolf upon his brutal tormantor, not noed to bo told that others besi thia singular man. PAUL DE XOCK, ag tho translations from his writings have him known to thoso on this sido of tho Atlaytle, 14 an author vegarding whoso personnlity ourlosity s folt, yot thoro In somoting ci ivoin the description wo have of him ny Mr. Chorley fonnd him at bis houso In Paris, ing loft n noto of introduction nt his residonce in tho uoulevard 8t, Matin, the call wagshortly Chorloy writos: “T openod #tood o short, middle-ngod man, with n very prepossessing countonanco, aftor roburned. Mr, the door, and there Chorloy - chancod tolinvo a kont moxt tho dowager Lady Eusox, ca the old gontloman betwixt tho courtgonaly to his noighbor ps he did o, **Now, I nhall glve up my plnco to Mr, Togora ; good-night,” Whilo Mr. Chorloy was stooping snld Lady Essex, in hor ¢! Como, Mr. Rogors, here i n sent for you by mo.” “Thaul you,” snid the old gon- Gyos on Mr, Chorley as ho was doinghis bost Lo got ont of the way, “Thank you, but T dow't like your company,” In placing this incident on record, it must bo confessed that Mr: Chorloy complntuly rovengos Those who are familinr with tho eccontricitios of Rogors do o8 Mr, Chorloy suffered from tho petulant temper of ologant apartmonts of tho DPnlais Royal to tho | solves of the royal invitntion was Louin of hit on At Ar. mado litile tract- moro splondid enloons and cabluots of the | Conde. IHe had loft Franco n stalwart and flory houto, and his ohatoaux and domaing of Saint- fort, but soarccly with luxury, slternatoly at tho | ooy, A4 s %4 mind too much engrossed by the sorrows of the middlo clngsos, and the founder of n now royal In the lovely and secluded bourg of Chantllly ing of Ang. 27, 1830, when it wus nnnounced to ous and romnntlo memories, none is moro fit importance, Tho man was forthwith admittod grandour of in imposing ruin hns boen tddod. t the young Dukes of Chartres aud Nemours, his | sinsm which ovory pilgrim to tho home of the Hesnys: T conld still find scope to admire the tho Prince of Condo i3 dead,"” belo poplars, which have taken rout among tho ‘‘Ho wns found this morning, sire, Laug- wosny paths and thoso hawthorn-boughs'; thoso Rt " il DUllincorialt suioiia 2 slowwera uro onco morohodding tholr fragrangor: Hev- *This was at Chantilly 2" his weary ateps thithor, woro but a splendid ruin “ A umall purty of tho Princo’s fricnds, siro, | PECRtals. tho grent. ‘cannl, tho noblo old Grand Lullarlos, A littlo mora than & month bofora ho | yOUng man of 93 he roturnod n_grizzlad, sh lind boon & privato nobloman, liviig With come flnm, wrinklod old man of G0, His Daria Lounnd_ Ohantllly woro rostorod to him, and Palnis Royal and ot his conntry rotroat: now ho | to theso he rotivod, his spitits too broken, Lis it ho iourgools wovorelgu, the Bl ctotlie past, to take part {n the coremonies of tho conrt d5uaity, or tha pnllticy of the duy. Lo Riug had fusb hreaktasted, on the morn- | wora situnted his simestisl cnatlos und park, No domain fn Franco is moro reploto with illustri- him that o mountod mossenger tad arrived ¢ fuute frouw luniilly with intaligoneo of worious | 19.ba the lomo o Drincos; Howegutinos tha do- to tho presonco of Louis Philippe, with whom | the autiquo pioturosquoness of tho spot, Earl wero one or two Minlstors, hiy soerotary, ond | Btanliope deseribos its bonutios with nn onthu- Homd, Olrlenlt Condohas lllm;mll' folt, uwru;l:hy:fr}mps not 2 g al Vi xpression 8o gracolul and elog . **Biro,” snld tho mossongor, * 1iin Highnoss | JhoeoSiveitoxprossion sogracolul nud oloquont. wild racoesos of that unpruncd forost, those lim- ‘'ho Liug roue fn surprive, and asked ¢ pid and gushing stronms, thora light-groon Ar- ¢+ Whon did that happon 7" ruting of th Grand Chatont, and whioh Do mr. ronnd it with their quiverng shado ; thoso ing to ona of the shuttors of his bedroomewin- dow, by his handkerchief, cuite dond,” ‘.'m'douu rostored with caro, and where tho most homutiful orango-troes and tho most brilliant o muat huvo Loon wo, Your Majosty,. Tharo | FRRES Aro oneo moros Torest, imposing nud k- aro no traces of foul play, urious 08 thoy woro when the' last Condo turnad * At Chantlly," of thoir foruier stato.’ Tho statucs and foun- & AT 7 i siaah falun o tormces, with e wobly-carvod Chatean, whore the Grand Monarque wanderod aud Madamo do Fouchores., That s nll, a8 the giont of his grostost unu]o?n, hnd disap- but iulolllgux:li.nnd n;nlnlnchcil}l' n:tllml' tll Louis Plulippo turned to M. Guillaume, his Punrcd; the vuatt(nblnx:“l-nru lnzcnmplutn though gay, very hin ~ and ongish black hai 3 vl mposing ruin : tha stately pastures wore over- (lm' i8(1899), Indeed, ali but bald), secrolary, and roquested him to praceed, with posing y P & flno forchend, and niild, oyes. 1o way dressed in o black poliuso, and enffed with plush, *Jo suis Paul do ¥ I was thoroughly glad to sge Lum, and welcomod Frouch; told him of the plensuro I had recsived from his_writings, and Hischaracter scom- od to mo truo to tho feoling, sud simplicity, aud Lhavo yet to find whether it bo true to thoso looser parts which (pit?' ot them) makewo beautiful a govies n sealed book to Bnglikh readors in goneral. But aw o im my bost fn bad wo had some plensant talk, shrewdness of bis novols, Hpoke with niXoction of a uson 1) yoars old pinys tho pinuo very woll), [ will boliovo Li he 0 goud father st 'all ovents,” ¥ Coming tack to Lnglund ngain, we have recollections of BOUTUEY, who, Mr. Chorley suvs, ovar met, **is faco is ot onco shrowd, ful, and quick, if not irritable, tion, but notdatlelency of teature oroxpress lm:lmnnunr coldbutstill; in convorsation, any and talking wall, »_good Ho was speaking of Miss Martineau but without respect, dese tnore glibly than” any woman Lo had even and with sueh a notion of lier own infallibility Iood is described *“as quaint, ns lazy, ns as ever, but always ono of the mogt original bnt ohservant, angwered his expoota- tions move thoroughly than any Litorary man ha thought- i its oxpression —singular doflcioncy of apan in its lower por- gontlo, and not neaily so dogwazio 18 his writings would lead ong to imngine : talking, deal about Amarica, pationtly, bing Dor a8 talking Mesers, do Rumigny, Pasquior, Do Simonyillo, and Caucly, to the Chateau of Chnutilly, Nost in blood relutionship to the deconsed Princowero the Princos de Rohan; but the King elther aid not think, or did not sea fit, to sond them u noti- fieation of the sad oveut, 0 6trauge news Hoon spread through Paris, extouded to the boulovards, to tho Champs ELlywoos, to tho arlstocratic Faubourg 8, Gor- main, and oven to tho remote, irrogular stroots rown, tha noble forest was choked with brush, g’ut the Chatenu of 8t. Lou still remninod, and was all too Inrge nnd splendid for tho dosolate fathor of D'Evghien; tho forost was still unsurpnaged in heauty and folingo; and princely comfort might atill bo enjoyed 1 the spacious gardens nud tho vonorablo alis, The old man might sit horo and dronm of that olden timo when hts famous ancostors, wearied of * nction and ronow,” sought the Inxurions enso and ro- tiramont of thiy very spot; whoro the revols rivaled thoso of Voisilles, and whore the Gront Condo reigned in the midst of a goninl and lavish facad Kocl! (who | and squalid oloses of Montmartro and St, honpitality, 1t is said that Louls XIV. was eo m to | Antoiue. Sulons and ecabarols, eafes, and the Jealous of Conde’s good fortune in Posacusing coullusos of tho theatrs, wero in & hubbub of auch a rotront, that on ono accasion ho threatenc brlef | nmazoment and conjecture over the mysterious | od to seizo Chantilly and appropriate it to him- oconurrenco ; ror the old man whose suddon und smrlar taking off thus stirred the Parssinn world throughout that and many eubsequont doys was the Iast of an illustrious line, wifoloss amd childless, dwolling almost solitary in the ancient and spacious chintean, whera tuo splondor of the Condes had rivaled, fu more than self, by virtue of o provieion in the T'reaty of the Pyrences, Condo bowed roverentiully, and ro. eponded: *Hire, o beit; yon may command, But I beg you to feavo mo s Cnantilly a8 your Gtoward,” ‘Tlio King eaw the old Prince's meaning, and ‘was prudent enough to forego his domand. slon 1 | gno generation, that of Bourbon royalty Many stories are told of ihie subssquent visita bland | jigelr, * Had ' tho poor old Priuce, | of Lotiis to Chantilly, ono at least of whiol, ro- heart-brokon at tho downfell of tho | lated with intinite graco by Madame Hovigna, Heavou-mointed Xing. wonght cousolation | canmot be omitted, It {s & story—like thnt which ramains to be told of tho Ilastof the indeath ? Had his mind givon way, and thus o b ; Condos—of chgrin and . donth; thousts. toe fod to an irresponuible snicido? Or was this the work of an aumwassin, porhieps of soma familiar of | canses of tho chagrin and. the manner of the Ius household, of nome pretended fv iond, who | .leath woro in mngular contrast with those ivhicl: had somo Beerot motive for depriviug him of ex- Fxm an ond to the fllustrious lineago of Lonis de istonco 7 ourbon. The following is n translation of the The many conjectures which swayed hithor | sccount glyon by Madamo de Sovigno, and the He denf beoplo in his drollorios I ovor mot. 'Thoto in n | gy thither e groups of excited gossipors did | truth of it is vouched.for by more than one cortian indeseribablo oddity that amuses mo | poy utop short wita thesa questivnings. King | contemporary authority : more than I cun axpress, Louis Phitippe bad not _won his crown by tho “T'ho Xing (Louis XIV.) arrived ot Ohantilly Our own authoress, uuanimous voico of Paris, aud thera woro fhous- | on Thuradny evoning; tho promonade and tiy = AUSH BEDGWICK, auds in tho capital who, within a montls of Lits ne- | collation served in Bpots. curfiwtnd with jonquils oama within the circle of Mr. Cliorloy'ancquaint- goseon, wore bittorly disniected aguwst him. | —all this wont off oxcollently. ‘Ihoy Bupped ; snco nbout this sams time (1834). *Sho iy do- | 1o pustisans of Charlos X. and thoso of g 10- | theie were sovoral tablos at' which tho ronste oldedly the ploaanntest Amoricai woman I have publie woro aqually oxasperated ; and any binted | woro wanting, in consequence of moro dinners over seen,” ho writes, bumor and less Amorican sectnrinnism. twang, to be suve, bacltwoods ;_but theu slio in livoly, kind, 1 warm and I feel, somehow or other, almost on friendly torms with hor,thongh1 neverspoke more Lator Lo addw: ““Miss 8edgwick Lins hoen roturning the compliniont of all Luglieh jourunlists by putting than twonty consecutive words to her,” us all yonnd on_papor to n degres which i bad. Sho asked, it sorvauts what wagne thoy recoived nnd tho sud T hoar Lins wiitten that whicl: is likoly sadly to compromise komo of tho Italian refugeos in Ameriea, who were negoiiating with the r;lnn Government for & reatoration to their ien, easion for, liberally diunered and soirocd thing passes off lika n nine days’ wondor.” At later poriod of Lis life, Mr., Chorley cation ag A JUBIOAL, cRITIO threw him into tho most intimatoe rolations Mondelssohn, from the groat composer, &hip hetweon the two, which endured until doluzohin's dealli. ~ Gounod, Chopin, Lisat, orboer, and Berlioz amon, Jonny Lind among vocalists; Mrs, Dickons, Carlylo, and our mnong authors, thore with whom M, Chiorley moro or less confidential and protracied, speaks of all of these ne few other men conld, for Le appraachod them with his eritical tacultics on and tho demands of personn! friond- tho alort, #hip were never allowed to tuke precedoneo Do was ealled on to disehnrpe n profossional “This uswerving hionesty, his thorough conucisne tiousncss, and his intonso sincerity gained him & rospect raroly vouchsafed to one of his profes- gion, and giva to the reminiscences with which these volumos aro filled a value which vory fow such works posseces. Tho Inst, h\'ml(g years of Mr. Chorloy's lif died Teb, 16, 1872, in the G4th year of his woro spent in Enton Placo West, London, ~An ] who supple- ments the autobiographicul pussages of these incident related by Mr. Howlett, volumes, is worth giving as illustrative of 7 THE GRIM HKONOR of which Mr. Clorley occasion, Whilo inspecting the Louse whi finudly leased, the real NAITOWNORE Of tho statrcase, coflin,” similar houses, sir, but I naver lieard n gentle- au obuorvation boforo,” was the mau malke such astonivhed wan's rejoindor, It in cortni sntlufaction to know, us Mr. Tlowlott romatks, Chorloy'a conviction that he that, *“while Mr., should spond his lnat yoars in the hous justified by thoe event, that the staircase in tlon was witness to many a pl fore rendariug him this Inst ALL EQUAL BEFORE G-GD. A Bralin{n on a lotus-pod Once wrotw to holy namo of God 3 Then, planting it, ko usked fu prayor 'OF 80O now {ruit, unkuown und raro, A slave upon the dusty road Foll faluting *ucath his hoavy load ; “Uhe Brubmin, thoughtloss, And lifted up the fullen man, Tho deed weareo done, lio stood nghast At touching one benoath Lis cauts, Behold, erled bo, T am unelean Ay hauds have clasped tho vilo tud mean, God aaw the shadow on his face, And wrouglit a miraclo of graco’s Tho burled seed uproso frum earth, Aud bloomed and blossonted fnto Lirth, Tta louven wero markd with lotlors raro, Aud glaaly read the Braluin there b words: * Quunt all r wqual casto Thon count thyself tho least uud Tunt,” ** with more of a turn for there ia in plenty ; and the toilot is tho dowdiness (not tho finary) of the Boems, poor Mism Mitford's I liked ber so well in private, a8 an honest~ minded, simplo-rannercd, cultivatod woman, thnt I am really moro vexed thau thero In any oc- 1 “fear tho uoxt cago of ‘l ranuatian. tic birds will not rau much-chauco of boing very hero; only avory- '8 vo- and the numerous cordial lottors which azo given, afford abundant proof of the heartinoss of tho friend- musiciang ; Grisi and DBrowning, own Hawthorue are_but the more prominent of bad intercourse, bimsolf waa capablo on ontate ngant who was showing it to' bim mado some apology for tho Novor mind," zepliod Chorley, “ T shall roquire » vory unrrow “I have sold a great many leases of Sunt 8ceno be- Straightway rau taint upon the King's cbaracter apart was suro to bo enught up and ecagerly repeated, and to find itu way in exazzerated riunor fo overy quar- ter of tha clty. 'I'netn wero knowing mon ou the boing roquired than hnd been oxpectod. This bad ‘a groat effect upon Vatol (Vatol was the Princo of Conde's chiof Fronch cook), Ha ox- claimed sovornl timos, * My honor is gone! Hora The et~ | haulovards in those August days, withuly looks |13 an affront which I~ caunot bear! He and wagging heads, who wave” & new turn to | anid to Gourville, ‘My head swims ; the sugovtions of tho causes of Honri do Bour- | for twolve nights Lave not slopt ; bou's sudden death, ‘“'Thore iy something,” thev said, “ beneath what appears, Thoro is a davker mystory than you guess, Thers isa bidden romance belind this death-geeno. oy tell you that the Princo of Condo loved Charles X. and hates Louis Philippo ; that ciagrin at tho fall of Charles hna proy aesist mo 1a giving the orders.’ Goure ville cousuled him g well o ho could. Tho ronst which hind beon wanting, not at tho King's tablo, but at the twenty-fifth, was always reeurring to Dis thoughts, Gourville informod Monsienr o Princo of Lis state of mind. Monsieur the Prindo went ns far a8 Vatol's own chiamber, and H too liko ¢ mont caused his denth, Yo, look you, this man, who | nid to him: & Aus- | g6 Tintes the King that be dies beeauso he is ' ‘Vatel, nll is going wall: nothing could be fomi- | King, bequonths his 1mmense proportios—his finor than the mnq's unrpmu' ‘** Monsioguour,’ replied ho, ‘your kindness overpowers me. I know that the roast was want- ing at two of the tables,’ ** No at all,' knid the Prince, ¢all is going por- fectly well; do not distrens yonrselt,” ** Midnight comes. 'I'he fireworks did not suc- ceed. ‘*Thoy nre covered by a cloud; they cost six- toen thousand fraucs.” At 4 o'clock in tho morning, Vatel goes about uvori'whora; ho finds from tho boudoir of Madame de Feuchores {0 | overy one nsloop; he meots s littlo boy who is tho cuamber of the Prince of Condo thero is a | bringing two londs of sez-flsh; le inquires of private spiral staircase.” him— ‘Thus it was covertly clinrged that Louis Phil- | **Is that all p* ippo linew more of tho cause of Conde's death ““!You, sir, roplied the other, not Imowing that than the world in gonornl imagined ; and sus- | Vatol hadsent to all the 8eaport towns, Vatel picion was songht {0 bo thrown upou the King | waits some timo; the other purveyors do uot of belng implicated in wome way in tho | como; ho becomes wildly excited; he thinks event, sinco the King's son, and the woman | thero will bo no further supply ; Le finds Gour- ¥ho had enjoyed Conde's confidenco dur- | villo, snd says to hitn: ing his last yoars, alouo profited by it. It | **Sir, I shall nover survivo this affront.’ was not unknown that Madame do Foucheren **Gourvillo Inughs at him, 3 had been mora than once recoivod privatoly at *Vatel goos up to his room, places his sword tho Luileries wince Loui Pllili{)]:u‘u accension ; [ ugninat tho door, and runs it through his hoart; and it was uot lows gouorally boltoved that, withi | but it wns only ot the third stroke, for hio gave many virtues, the Kiug wus inordinatoly parsi- | himself two that were not mortal, that ho falls wonious and grnu‘liug. s ovemics, nt loust, | to the ground dead, concluded that Conde's fortuno Lad not beon | _ **Tho sea-flsh, however, arrivo from oll sides; left, without the ussistance of womo oceult in- | Vatol 16 wanted to distributa thom. They go Lo triguo, to_tho son of & mun whom ho dotested | his room, thoy knock, they break open ths door, from tho bottom of Lix soul. thoy flud him_bathod inhis own blood; thay Tho illustrions descont of tho dead Princo, tho | rusl to the Priuco, who in_in desynk. Ho mou- fomantio momorica and pieturosaue boauty of ( tions it mournfully to tho Kivg; hoy say it is to noble Clhatenu of Chantilly, with its ampla parks aud its brond ucres—to this vory King's infant son. The Duke d’Aumale, alnost n babe in arms, is the heir of the Prince of Condo, Did the old Prince love thisinfant? No. Did he love tho infant's father? No. Ho hated him, Hera, nies amis, is n dosp, deep plot. Mademeo do Foucheres, dopond wpon it, is in (he confi- denco of Louis Philippe; and Madume de st | Eeucheres fives fu tho Luuko of Coude; nay, wil Mo Moy- o when duty, 0—~he | the placo whore tho Lagody occurred, and tho | bo attributed to too high a senso of honor, ac- 86— | singular _conncetion of” tho nowly-cnthronod | cordiug to his views; t ;{ appland his charao- u tor; some praise, others blams his courn, 0." To this beautiful retroat, romance and former family with Condo and with his mystorious deatli, give to the history of the ovent much nioro intorest than usually altonds the storios of tho douths of Princes, Louis Josoph Howri de Bourbon was the lineal descondant and Leir of that Louis of Conde who, in tho seventeonth contury, wou, by lis foats of trms uud_statesmanship, the titlo of *f {ho great.” IIo was born in Paris in 1756, and way 45 years of aga whon tho revolutiounry Statos- Uenoral of Franco ussombled nt Vorsnifles, His futhor, tho tlion Prince of Conde, was o zealons adlierent of the royal house with which ho way conncatod by the ties of blood, by patrician in torost, and by loyal affeotion, 'When thoe storm burst in 1790, both sive und son flad from their luxurious homo at Chautilly to sharoin the vicis- situdes of tho royulist emigres. The son is deseribed a3 havib, boon, “at this time, a warm-blooded, hundsome young man, with tho eallow Bourbon tint and tho dark Dour- Lon brow und oyo, and tho bhoreditary haughty guit and_aquile nose, of the Condes, ‘I'ho rinco, tho fathor, was now too old aud feoblo to tako an netive park in the hot strugglo whioh eusucd botwoen the allied Gorniun avniios on tho oue sido and {he forcos of the mow-born repub- Jie o tho othor ; but Louls, inspirad by family prido and putricinn zoal, becama ono of the mony ariutocratic emigrants who took servico under the banuors of the Hapsburg and tho Hohonzol- lern to fight sgainst their own countrymen, Ho rosoguized iu the tricolor the symbol of nu- tional *diggraco rather thau natiounl sover- cignty, and thore scems littlo doubt, from his fubsequont caroer, thab Lis motiva was a4 much au earnost balief in the vight of mon- arehy and tho abomiuation of democracy, us the nnlt‘-lmomuc'whiuh resonted the persecution of his awn family and the doprivation of 1ts cstutos, o accepted 4 Cuptuiney w1 un emlgrant rogi- mont, and took a courageons aud active art in the famous campeign on tho eustern Trontior, in which Dumourios was tho able but nnsuccossful leader of the rapublican forcos, Condo remained " with tho allios for throo yourw, whon, wonnded at 80 redolont of former grandour, tho leat Prince of Condo retired in tho oarly yoars of the restoration, mutteting, “1 hava lived long onongh!™ It might bosald that ho was slong in tho world; for neithor wife, nor children, nor near rolativo, had boen spared to him. Alons, howover, ho was not, but worso than alone, Alroady tho arts of s boautiful, fusol- uating, and schoming woman had brought him complotoly into subjection to hor will : and to this companion, whom he brought with Lim to Chantilly, whore ho provided herwith o spacious and splon suito of npartments, and every luxury which wealth oonmrfirouuro or Ingntiable yanity demund, hio owed, irectly or indivectly, Lis violont death, A mystory always lung, dny, ovor the orifin of the cheros, 1t i eortaiu that glishwoman, the daughter of oXxtremely obscura Linglisk paronts, who had boon bronght up in the” London streots, and had probably boon born iu somo low ‘shun of tho metropolis, istory first finds hor on tho boards o}) Co- vont Garden T'hoatro—a young and radiantly handsome girl, verforming inforior parts, and soomingly introducod rather on pccount of the fuscinationsof hor poraon thay tho brillinuoy of hor histriomo talents, From the stage sho passed into the ranks of the demi-monde ; and, aftor a fovorish carcor, she succoeded In cap- tivating the worn hoart of tho old Lrineo of Condo. '8ho was also boloved at this time by o frallant and conrageous young soldier of Franco, tho Baron do Feucberos ; and ho, ignoraut of the rolutions which oxistod botwosu tho of- dovant netres and the Prince, proposed mar- riago, waa necapted, and, after a Lnuf deloy, lod hor'to tho nltar. Hin discovory of hor relnrions with the Prince resultod In an opon rupture, whereon the fuselnated old Prince oponly resorte: to Chautilly with his beautifal and imperious tyrant, Mudamo do Feuchores ywas not contout with tho dovoted submission of the I'rinco, his ch he uly o e was quos- and hangs to this Baroueus do Fou- slio wus nu Eo- Scratehing Matches on o SIIc Dross, tho aenanlt of Berschiom, ho' was compelfed to | Iavish gratifieation of hor overy caprice, tho From the du Lac (Wis) Commonvealth, hee, 8, | yotyre from the sorvico, Ilo lived for somo time | SPlendid luxury with which 8o was surrounded T'here wna quite o commolion at tho rodiderce in seclusion on the Cantluent, ohservaut thougl | Y tho chateat”of 8t Lou. No soonor had gho of M, rles Rhodos, on Western aveuuo, Inactive; aud in 1800 rewnirod fo England. {n | 80t faitly ensconcod. thors than her greed and about 11 o'clock this forenoon, A firo wag tha mosnitimo his ldost son—fo o hud married | Ambltion ot to work upon the Princo's ondnbss discovered in - (ho clothes pross, Paoplo | and lost his wifo hofora tlie Ilevolution—Lad | OF fears to acquire for horself'a more permancut ruchied in and romoved such of the Louso- zrown to manhood, !I'm oid l'rlununo\\-ul:dunld, m’:(l afiluence than eho derived from the liviug hold goods aw they could from the l',u only awaited a favorable momonut to enter | Ltince’s gonorosity, B building, but the flamoes ‘were oxtinguished bo- foro mueh dumage had been done the house, Lut the clothes in thut wardrobo were sadly dis- Mra. Rliodes lout four or five drosnos, turbed, ono o sill, and Mr. I,'s overcont, sovoral of pauty, and o dress coat wore singed out of slinpe. ow tho fire mu:’ghb an honr aftor it ocomrod, mothor's sl dress, mxhuug matches, This {s not a vor o stroyed, but Mr, and Mra, moxo, under the olrgwnatanoos, Toal syntory for | young Dukio ‘d'Eughilon, having boou solzod s “Thotr litlo 4-year | Yy N L 3 S tolg e of Hes kool Nicle, d-yonr | Purl by Nupoleon, wus ordered by that oruel had # good time soratching matehes on iy The myutory was solved, It dooina thab the little follow hud & fondnoss for doslra. timo to havo ono's oxtra clothing do- Rhodes Lave reason to cougratulate thomwolyos that they lost no ultornately conxlufi, whoodiing, and threaton{ng Lilm ; by surround- ing him With pald crouturos aud #pies of her owns by lior manner, attinctivo slike whon it way lmpuflouu and whon it wus fond—she finall induced the poor, jadod old man to muke & will by which sho would receive at his doath, in her own_right, the eplondid domains of Bt Lou und Bolssy, This was n 1821, slx yoars bo- foro Lho catastrophe of the scoond rovolation, But aven this concesion did not contont her ; indeod, it only whotted Ler appetite for moro, Hoon aftor, elio provailad upon Eun to doviso to her also tho ancontrul forest of Enghlon, from which his unlappy son had takeu his titlo, and nto tho possession of hin uplondid fanuly cutaton in Frunco, But u torriblo celamity, Dblighting L lito, and plunging bim iuto & melsucholy which seldom afterward disappeared, visited him before Lo again saw the fumulinr shoros of his natlve land, IH{x son, the noole and promising pairs tyrant to be shot without tiinl as o Bourbon traitor, The youth wau taken at dead of night to the dark difch of that gloomicat of fortresues, Vinconnes, and (hoio was sncrificed a lifo of rnmnut promise to tho intolorant jenlonsy of ho Lmpovor, Tho story is told “ln Frouch —_— ?I: which :!{m xmw szuu dnmuusdod audl rocailvnd sSemaln fects In tlis article aro takeu from 2r, | tho consldoralle {ncome, Succoss I those Toul Dianols ¥ itlicirs da Bis A% (RE1EL ™ | bforts Banki omuicore: Buccoss gvont plot of lier eavoor—n plot which, with little doult, involved tho Princo's violont deatll, and iio which entored, in somo mystorlons way ot yob davolopad, the family of Orleans, dostined “so #oon to ascond tho throno of France. Madamo do Fouchiores now meditated & doop schomo by which to rotaln, after tho Princos donth, tho vnst proportios which sho had wheodled or browbgaton him into dovising to hor, 8hould ho dio, sho would bave to on- counter the rival clalng to tho ostntes of the powerful family of Robinn,—tho I'rinco's noarost holrs,—and it was ncoossnry that sho should form an_nllianco moro powerful wiill, With this viow sho sccrotly communieatad with tho Ovlenas familly. Blio proposod o tho Duclieas d'Otionns to” porsnado tho Prince of Condo to ndopt thoe young Duke d’Aumalo as his holr; and, iu roply {o this proposal, the Ducliess wrole an affectionate lottor to this profligato wonian, who had hitherto been slunnod by the Orleans, and forhiddon tho ontreo to the Palafs Tioyal. “I nmn vory much touched, madamo,” this royal Indy wroto, ** by what you' tell mo o yonr anxfoty to bring’ abous that rosult which you look on ns likoly to fulfill tho wishios of M. lo Duc de Bourbon; and, believe mo, if T hayve tho hoppiness to ‘find my son bocomes his ndoptad child, you will recoiva from us, at all times and in alf civeuristances, that support for you and yours which yon are ploased to lomand, and for which n mother's gratitude will bo for yonu a suro gnaranteo.” Encouraged by Madame de Feuchioros' ropre- sontntions “of tho favorablo progrens of hor prossure upon tho old Priuco, Louis Philippo of Orleans—soon to bo King—hnd tho singular - delicaoy to go in porson to tho man who hio know detoatod him and sl Lis family, and entroat him to louvo his woalth to littlo Aumalo, ‘Tho Prince of Condo was thundrstruck when this plot dawn- eduponhim. Holind nlwaya despisod tlio Orleans, from tho duy that Philippo Igalite hnd voted for tho denth of his vousin, Louiy XVL; and now to bo importuned to malke a scion of LLis houso the heir of his traditionnl astato and for- funo was a bittor swpriso in his lonely old age. But his * poor Bophie ' did not pormit nm ‘o rost until, wentied and bivken by her persist- ency, lmviug. it 18 paid, “known no rest sinco thin fatal matter had occupiod his thoughty,” do- clared thnt ““his blood was on fire," and beon oxcited into many violont alloroations ith Feuclieros, ho at st faltered, ¢ My donth,"” ho monned, * s the ouly thh;g thoy look for, Onca they shall have obtaiied from me what they de- sire, my life may be in jeopardy," As n last rosort, lie appenlad piteously to the mognanimity of Louis Dhilippe himself, Lo wrolo to him o mont touching lottor, in which ho declavod tho wholo sifair to bo ** ju- fluitoly distressing” to him, whoroupon tho wily Duke d'Orleans mado n'protenso of beg- ging Madamo do Fouchoros Lo discontinue hor oftorts, Bhe poromptorily refused; nor can it bo onsily doubled that sho thus seoretly ploasod Louls Philippe. Ouo day tho old Princs was in the billiard-room of his Paris hotel, M Burval, who wasin an nd- Joining room, hourd loud talkibg, and, goiug in, lound Condo red with rago, * Ouly 800, oxclnimad Touchores, who was with him, “In what o passion monseignour puts ll:lmaull‘, and without o causel Ty aud caln im. ‘“Yos, madnmo," roturncd Conde, * it is hor- rible, atroclous, thus to put u knifo to my throat to make me o & thing you know I so muoch ab- hor" e caught hold of Lor hund, aud addad, glounlll'ly, “Well, plungo the knife iul ut onco—a} onca | Tho next day Coudo mado a will, appointing the Dulko d'Aumalo his heir, and burimmlh(ng Aadamo do Peucheres a proparty worth 10,0005 000 franca, So mattors stood whon the Rovolu- tion of 1830 came, Louis Philippe beesmo King, and Charles X, an oxilo, It wos toward the middio of Angust, 1830, that the Irinco of Coudo, who Lisd now become por- mauently moroseand melanclioly, aud who nover hourd the name of Foucheres pronounced with- out u certain senile torror, sccrotly told hus con- fidontial valat that 5o proposed to make n long tour, and to sseapo from Cunutilly without th knowledgza of the housolold, His strange ac- tions meanwlhilo attracted tho attention and roused the curiosity of his uttondants. On tho morning of the 11tl liis oye was fonnd to bebload- ing, and he ox Inined it by snying Le had fallon agninet o table, but aftersards snid s tomplo had struck sgainst the door, Events nu the chatosn inerensed in myn(u? until the 20th. On the morning of that day Mad- ame de Fouchores repaired em‘l{ to the Prince's dressing-room, and soon the volces of both waro heard, angry and threatening, A ma}) narrel, lasting for somo timo, ensued, and Madumo do Youchores came out of the rcom flushed with passion, DBy dinuor-timo, however, the storm seomed to bave pnssed away, Tho Prince ap- peared at tablo, to which o fow Intimato friends bad invited him, andwas obsorved to bo in unusnally good spirits. 1o laughod and Jjoked, and ate’ and drank heartily, Tho party re- paired to tho drawing-room, tho whist-tables wero whaeled out, and Conde took a hand at the samo tablo with Madame de Foucheros, playing with zest till lato in tho' ovening, and talking choerily throughout. Finally, ho rose, waved u good-niglit to each friond with nis band, and, as o went toward the door, turned and gove thom & cheerful lqlming, A demain " 1t was the last timo that tho last Princo of Condo wna scen of men. Ho was accompanied to his chambor by Bon- nie, bis doctor, and Lecomte, his valet., It {a worth notiug that Locomto, tho valat, had boen selootod for this service by Feucliores, and was at onco o Bpy and a croature of that designing woman. As Lecomto was leaving tho chamber, ho asked the Princo: * *¢At what hour will monseignour rise ? ‘At 8 o'clock,” It was now the night of Au . 26, and on the 81t Condo Froposcl.l seerotly to leave tho chiatean, ““to tuke long journoy,” us Lo said; but iy real projoct in ‘takiug this stop can'mover bo known. "A longer journoy than he had planned was now in storo for him. Throughout that warm, Lright summor night ull was upparontly tranquil in and about the ald chatean, The uight-watch, who patrollod iho terraces outside, from dusk to dawn, heard no sound isaue from the vast manslou ; the domeg- ties alopt undisturbed in the wing devoted to their lodgings ; the (I'nmus were equally uncon- selous of any unusual ovent. The Prince of Conde's sleaping-chamber wag & small but richly-decorated apartment in the second story, with :i‘;at smallor drossing- room leading from it, Madame do Foucheres occupied a suito of rooms in the story below, with hor nioce, Madame de Ienssans, A staircaso conuected this suite with the Princo's chamber abovo, and aléo led_from tho entranco- ballof the chateau. The Prince's apartments’ openod upon thoe large centrnl corridor. On the firet floor, aleo, woro most of tho guest-rooma, On leaving his master, Locomto, as usual, carofully locked his dressing-room, by which nccoss was tobe had to his chamber from tho carridor, and carried the key away with him, Promptly at8 o'clock on tho morning of tho &ith ‘the valet uppoared at the Princo's door and knocked, according to orders, bo- foro unlooking it. No respouse was givon. Lecomto thought nothing of tho elrcum- stancs, but, thinking tho Princo still asleop, went away, o roturn in a quartor of an hout, nccompuniod now by Conde’s physictan, Tho kuock was ropoated ; thero was still tho dead silonco, The two mon beeamo nlarmed at this, and hurried around by the larger staircuse to tho apartment of Mudamo- do Fouchoros, Madamo da Foucheres heard their intolligence calmly, and snid ; T will %o up at once. When be hoars my volco o will reply.” Al in dishabillo a8 she was, sko hastonod up, and bogan rapping vig- oroualy at the L'rinco's door. Tho hotlow sound of tho echood knock—nothing more, “ Opon tho door, Monseigneur |" “itis 1, 8 phio; open tho door " Tho nowme of the rapping spoedily snmmoned tho guests and domestics, with terror-stricken faces, to tho Princo's apartmonts. Locomto un- looked the dressing-room door, and prococded to that of the chumbey, to find 1¢ securoly fastened, A sharp knocliug hore ouly produced tho samo result, No slightost sound escaped from withiu, Chen two of the valots wore ordered by Madamo do Foucheroy, now deadly palo and leaning upon the Abbo Drinnt, hor sevrotary, to foteh heavy bar, This was usod with immediato offect upon the panals, which, giving \\'nf, enabled Lecomte and the doctor to onter the chamber, To the ;ijmnp without, their silonco, aftor ontering tho mysterious room, wus strangoly proteaotod. ~ Thoy found It In truth, vory urk. Tho shutters of both tho windows, which looked forth upon ono of the noblest domains of TFrance. lud been tightly closed ; ouly the flickoring glimmr of a uunrll! exhaust- od onndlu.)fluuud outhe hearth, and soreoncd by & lnrgo fonder g.lncod Lefore i, relioved In tho loast dogreo the o sourity of the apartment, It was by this dim light that the valot and tho phyaiciun discornad tho Prince of Coudo, who seomed Lo be loaniug aguiust ono of tho windows with his head bont, us if peering and_lstening througl tho blinds. Lecomta hustonod fo throw ntun the blind of tho othor window, whon n ghautly spoctaclo mat tholr syes, "Tho ourly moruing ruys fell upon tha figuro of tho poor old man Langing from the burs which huml tho shuttors, Avound his novk woro twisted two handkerchiefs, tied togotbor; aud those woro fustoued to tho espagnalelty, or bolt, which Liold tho burs togethor, ‘Lho Liorsiblo pullor of his fage told the story of doaths, Tho Vonorablo hasd was sunk upon alo cried ; tho brenat ; bin loga neemed to bo drawn up, 18 if fixed by a final nrnnm; tho withered hands Wworo ulodod tight, whilo his toes just touched tho floor, Bingulnrly enough, the handkerchiof did not cnvelop the windpipo, but_prossed tho forward part of tho Jnw, emsslug theuco to tho hack of tha hoad, bolow (ho crown. Thus the Princo could not hinve hean alvangled to denth, Tho oxelamatious of Lecomto noon bronght the houseliold, who had heon nwalthng brunflh- losaly In the corridor the word of the onl| ma, pall-nioll into tho room. Mudamo do four chorop cast & quick glanco at tho Princo's BNk onded form, and foll to the floor in o vio- ont fit, 'Iho servants began (o moan, and to whispor to each other, * Monsotgnour indeud | Monsoignour fs dend!™ ‘Tlio Prince's almonor cnmo ig, and oxaminod the now nlmost felgid bady, Xfndame do Fouchoros. was lod nway to Ler chamber, followod by hior nleco. "Llio denth and supposed suicide of tho Princo do Condo lind beon dincovered about balf-past 8, By 10 the Judge of Instruction of Poutolse, and Commissary of Polico of Bt Lieu, woro holdiug their inguest in the chambor of doath, and bo- forg noows Lo ovont was lnown al the Palace of the Tuilories in Pacls, Irosently tho Procurour- Geuoral, inatructed by the King to report the “facta to M, Dupont do I'Eure, Minlstér of Tus- tico, renchod tho chalenn, and procooded to hear the ovidenco, Iliu roport, mada in the afternoon of thnt day, way pronounced by all Pavis, whithor every do- tail had by this timo spread, as grossly erro- ticous one. Ho declared that the Prince hnd died by strangulation; that thero woro o ap- Imnmucnnol‘ violeuco on his porson; that fo x’rtx’d boon Lolted into Lis ehambor fron tho n- sido; cido.’ “Uncomfortablo eritics, not too frioudly to tho uow dynamiy, ot once pointed out cireumstances which' dirgotly contradicted the conclusions of oud that it was undoubtedly n caso of sui- atod that, now that tho poor old Piince, nfler mnking o will bequenthiiig tho estatos of tho Condes to the young Duko d'Aumalo, was il out of the way, it was at onco the intorev, nnd the pnipose of “exalted por- sounges"—thora boing no doubt who was mennt by this oxprossfon—to hush up and provont an inquiry Into tho tragedy. Bt ovon royaly—if it nLlumEtud this tusk—could not hush it up; and ov the Investigation which suc- «ootled, the reasoning of thoso who rajacted tho theory that the Priuco hnd committed suicide, with tho ovidonco supporting it, was Inlly Drought out. Even bofore the Lrinco hnd bean laid ‘in his ‘tomb, however, partios for and against suicido lind boen formod. AMadamo do Toucheres vehotmently declared that the Princo ind destroyed himsolf in s fit of molaucholy; the Abbo Briant, her mocrotary, Lbastled nbout the house, lovked up the Princo's papers, declaring "that ¢ ovorything hoto bolongs to Mudume do Feuchores,”: aund the plato wns put under the guard of ono of hor undorlings. - It was only ot twilight on the doy of his donth that some piocos of pa- per, partly burned, were, picked up, by tho Hireplaco by tho King's Socrotary. Among tho words thus proserved woro, “1ho King—Vin- councs—unfortunate son.”. Whon the bits of were put into the hands of the chief law- ho exclalmed; * ITore ts tho truth!” Moro foutd, thioro was enongh wiiting to show that thoy weroe Rarl.muu of a lottor writton by the Prince to Mndamo do Foucheres, in the nature of o Inst will, concluding with n touchiug poutseript to this pport: * T asic thut L may be buried ab Vinconuos, near my unfortunats son.” Tho funeral sorvices took place ot the oliatoau of Chantilly on tho 4th of Soptember, o weok aflor tho {ragely; Conde’s heart was doposited n the tomb of 'his aucosters, being Lorno tluther in s silver-gilt casket. The Abbe Pelier deliverod tho fuuoral discourse, and startled tho mourning multitudo who gath- ored around the bier by declaring: © The Princo is iunocent of his deathn_tho sight of God.” Another and more splendid funeral ensucd at the royal ablioy of St. Denis, the burial placo of tho Kingw of Irance. ‘I'he body was recoived at tho portals by theabbey’ priosts aud canons ; Bishops cnanted high mass; und it was not un- obigorved that the Duken of Orleuns aud Nemours, tho two older sous of Louiy Philippo, were pres- et on the occasion,, Mouuwhilo, Mudimo de I'oucheres, foaring the indiznation of the poople of 8t, Lou, huvrio] 2\ from tho chatoau with her nieco, and, sus- piciously enough, took up her residonco atthe L'alnis Bourbon, on the left bank of the Soine, 8he appenrs to havo passed a poviod of fright and torturo ; her secrotury was constraiued to sleop In the'library adjoluing her chamber, and Madame do Feassans on a conich at her bodsida, ‘Thio opening of the Prince's will, mnl{lng the Duke dAumalo his residuary logatee, and be- queathing Madame de Fouclioras proporty worth 10,000,000 francs, was followed by the imiodinte resistunce of the Leirs of the houso of Conde, tho Princes of Rohan. Thoy at ouce brought o sult in the Conrt of Promlers Instunco as Loirs- at-low, to disputo the vulidity of the will, sud'to recover the property which they congidered us theirs by inheritunco, Thoy eugaged emmont counsel,:and the {ssue in the suit scon widoued from tho quostion of the will to that of (he made of the Prince's death. O the side of d’Aumalo and Fouchores it was pointod out that tho Prince’s chamber-door had been found bolted on the insidoe ;. tast o had for somotime beon sub- joct to fits’ of desporate melancholy; that the doctor, on entaring the room, had ovorturned o chuir 8o placed that the Princomight havod used it In hanging himsolf ; that tho [ragmonts of tho burnt letter indicated suicidalintent; tho signifi- cant mauner in which Lo bade adien, not ouly to tha guesty, but to tho servants, ou the night pre- ceding bis death; that thore was an absencoof auy marks of violenco whatover on the body ; that it was impracticablo for any assassin to roach his chumber without detection ; and that no sound of tho least altercation or struggle had been heard (hroughout tho night. Ou {ho sido of the Rohaus, per coutra, B, Honnequin pointed out with great force that nothing was more casy than to bolt dour on the inside from tho oulsido ; that tho position of tho bandkotchicfs proyed that the Prince could not have boen strangled ot all; that tho Princo's foot tonchad the ground, 80 that hae could not possibly have hanged him- solf, or evon been hanged by othera whera ho was found, while living ; that bis spivits Lad re~ covored their cheorfulness, aud that hobad boen oven hilurious tho night befors his death ; that, after reaching his chamber, bo had pursued his ordinary hobits ou rotiring ; his watch Liad ooy wound up us nsual, and carofully placed In its fob ; his ahflpm were placad at the foot of the bed, But thoro waro signs in tho. bed of somo unusnal -~ movemwuts; wud It appesrod that the Prince had blown cub the bwo wax-cundles, thus, if the partissus of sul- cido woro right, doliborately putting hinwelf in the durk bofore committing the deed, lnfep- ouces woro added to these arguments by tho domonstration that o privato stuircase led from Mudame de Fouchores' apartments to thoso of Condo ; nnad the prasouce of mative on tha pare of this woman to bring about the Princa's doath was significantly hintod, r But tho Rolwuns, owovor just their claim, woro contondivg sguinst & tgo. formidublo . powar, They wero attampting to doprive the young gon of au avaricious King of an immens fortuno. ‘Tho result was that thoir suit wus donied them, tho court confirmed tho validity of tno will, and D'Aumale and Madame do Fonoheres camo into their inhoritanco. Of Madame de Foucheres it nced only be smd that, hoying securod hor fortuns, sha took up her residence in Paris, whore sho nxppenred ot Louis Philippe's Lourt, gambled ou tho Bourao, yave gorgeous suppors, aud lived a reckloss, din: sipated life. D'Aumala grow up to tako ay ho— Toie part in the Algerine wars ; to romde, during a long oxilg, in Landon, and fiually to return to his sploudid ostato of Chantilly aftr the fall of Napoloon IIL and the restoration of tho Ovleans proportios to their ownors, A yoar ugo the wed- ding of tho daugliter of tlie Duke do Nemours, D'Aumnle’s oldest brothor, took placa ju the long-deseried chatenu of tho last af the Coundoa; snd the grand old plreo, over which lung the gloom of & dark tragedy, put on o galn gupeot 0uce miure, a8 it used to do in Lo bliliant days of Condo tho Groat and Louis tho Magnificeut, -~ WHERE MY LOVE IS AT REST. On n greon billside, where drooping old trocs Tond down to tho earth with tholr birden of Jeaves, And the breath of zopbyrs hums faint melodies, Liko whispers of hope to the heart it doceiven 3 ‘Whioro wilil roses bloons fu tho culm Summer-nys, “Lhulr Loarts (o $ho Aug, ke th bl of the wald Wiou bor fover b talo of dovation Letrays,— Ol 1 thera i tho epot whero my Anulo Js Iaid, On n greon hillkide, whero tho firat lght of morn Bends ita bright nutal kias (o tho valleys below ; Whero tlowzots liv over, and dew-drops ur bory, Foud fraits of the lovaa tho gadu da hesta § ‘Whero tho sunset ut evo, ita crimson huey gledming, Qustn i muntly of gold on #ts plnnaclul ereat, A ftu lust ruys coimo Koty und tendorly bedialng,— O 1 thore 18 (ho 6POE Whro 1y Jovo I 4t rest, Cutoxdo, JANES LAVALLIN, S Unusual Morbid Dovelopment, o Ao the Muywotlle (Mo Keporter, A ohild of Mr. Earnost Albrachit who livesfour or five miles southoast of town, died Inwt weal;, aud & pout-mortem examinalion wus hold unon tho body, which resultod in some remarkablo digoovorios. ‘o parents of tho child are Gor mun 4 tho ohild iteoll wus some 3 or § yean old, At itd birth, and for some timo afterward, noth- fug unnatursl was observed, Tn courso of timo, bowever, the oyos appoared to bo protruding from tholr pookots; thiy gradoally ju- oreased, untll lows of Right ousuad, At tho_ofilcial investigator; und more than neinu- b Insb the humors of ilio 0Oyén “wore Ap- sorbod, and tho oyos themsclvos alonghod offs Monnwhila a morbid growth haok of the oye- bulls was discovered soon aflur tho winatural protrusion roforrad to, "Thin growth contihuod until it had tho apponrance of fiold-glnssos_on the oyes, projocting to a dintance of tivo inohes. It hod & mottlod appearance, and tho ontside mombrane was tough. Tlio nogo Knd boon nomily abeorbed ; two orificen tho sizo of o knitting: neodlo oceuplod the place of nostrils, 'I'ho head had llgrawu to ho protornaturally large; tho foro: hiead waa vory broad and projecting. On oponing theskull tho bypin tn the Iront ’:mn, callod the cerobrum, \vah fourld to bo:n Boft mnss, .ahoiil the conalilongo of thin pasto; the haok brain way, howevor,-hodllhy, Abduba 1inb of liquic wa found in tho skull, Tua growth which pro- Jectod from tho oy foaltats, oxcopt the outaide mombrane, was of tho samo conuistouco of the frout brain. On the skull-hono of tho loft side of tho hond, & largo dark cnncarous mouss A also found,” ‘Fhaukull itadle wid vory hlir, The wonder {a .thut llfe . wna prolongod with tho brafu in wuch n condition. Tho only oxplanation I that the bact part of tho brain, frofi which tho norves aro ivon off, wag fn o hoalthy condition; If this portion of tha brain hail doftenod, denth would huve -roaulted immadintoly, It was sev- oral montha from the tima the growth bohind tho oyon was dissovered iill doatly camo to the raliof of tho littlo sufferar. Tho fzout brain war littorly déatroved ¢ it had consed 16 Lo Il bt all, and yot lifo contintiod—a fact which govy tc aliow LAt that patt of tho brln 18 nok abno. Iutoly osontial to lifey Lut the procoss vl woft. onlvg could proceed in the baol part of the brain only a short timo ¢l dénth wonld ensue, lr}l.\[;q boiny, so to mpehl, tho norvo contra of th ody, ’ t Tho post-mortom was - hold by Dts. MalSiauor, and Downing, . |/ g e TO YOURSELF. 1lova you, Let Fato do hor worst | - 1 stand Hora fis full daylight, with uplifted band, And vow by my swoct motlior, by tho faco God took cre ain hud dimmad its balv.coaoe, Ly ev'ry hopo to which thu houra givo Dreatl, That I am yours alone—iu 1fo or deati, Time's mercy lola my face roem somowhat fair, And glriboad's sunehiiue imgern on my batr 3 iut, yeors ogo, my hanrts bright Yorith nnd tetst Turned, ke its idole, futo worthless dust; Sliico thion I'vo watehied the hopsleas years drift by Without one thought—without one aoging sigh— Lor lovo or friendshiip, Al tao woll T kow “Lhat presont joy but bresda romo future woa, . Yet, When your hund olasved ming, in that Aamo kour My dlumb'ring ienzt srousad ftselt’ in powor 3 Avwola 1o Iearn that fifo conld never moro Wear tho same loy calmnass ns befora, i 8uos como and go 3 mooia wax and wano; but yot Thie glory of oug dity can nover kot, Whate'er the futuro hold, iL cantiof bo Trorgotfulness aball cono ta yoit or me, ‘Tho beav'w aliull pags wuy, T el sholl full, But Ishall love you—love you thrasgh it all, My Kmnzrasn,! ——— 3 HUMOR, TLadios, this wintor,: will wonr tho same things thoy wora Jast yonr—if they can't bug otliors, —Y, M. C. A, aro tho initials of n youny lady in New Hompshire, Boveral younginen aro anx- fous to join ner, J —Splcor snys the difforence batwosn the Ioosac Tannol aud an oyster is, that one is wholusome and tho other some holo. —A )flchilunu wanufacturor hina 18,000 broom- Dhaudlos rendy for shipment, Thiz ouht to sot husbandn thinking about coming lome onrly, —Tho young man who bunsted he could mar- ry any girl, ho . ploased, found that lia couldn’s pleaso any. % —“A new lnsmeout."nnyn tho Parid Figar * puggested by thalifo of M. Thiers, huas Leon in- vonted by aulugenious savant. It varies with overy change of the wind, aud iscallod tho Thiermomelre,” Y —An Jows matron occupics. tho position of mother-in-law to sixtéen abject men, Aud peo- );}E t'flk of slavory away off in Cuba!—New York orld, £ —A disconsolats husband, doseribing Lis ruu- away wifo, doscribes her as follows: Dlue cyas, red Linlr, prominent noso, dressad in yellow Lids, bronzo boots, aud a bluo sash,” —A Joung Indy says thnl u genileman ought nover o feol discouraged when the ** momontons uestion " is negatived by tlie ubjoct of his choice, * for i lifo, a8 in grammar, wo always docline before we conjugato,' —** If womo of our druggists,” snya an Ilinofs paper, ** would fill bottls with bed-buz poison, place it in the back room and lubet it * Old Ryo, thera would bo #o many inquests in fhe next twenty-four hours that all the popers would have to issuo supplomonts,” —Whon Doss Tweed's oceupation ‘was asked by tho Ponitentiary officiala bo correctly ropliod, !¢ statosman ;" for lsn't be tho Stato's man for the next twolve years.—Memphis A valancle, —Dolitencss paya. A Now Foris ste s ductor, who recontly said “ Yas, i @a." to 3 lady, by been preaented with & new overcoat, and they talk of a statue to him, ~Stalistics show that in tho mountainous ra- glons of Switzerland and Suvoy, dea? mutes rre moro numorous thun iu flot countries, This is, perhans, bocausa Nature niskes the mountain's poak for thom, —Intending to bo pathetio, the editor of fhe McCounollsville Zerald wrote of' #n bogutifu) girl stranded in & gale,” but the flendish com- Yositor sot it up *‘w boautiful girl straddled on 8 ril.” The editor's pathos was suppressed, and 80 was the compositor, —A New Orleand juryman wag asked by the Judgo il ho ever rend the papers. Ho roplicd : ¥ Yo, yor Honor ; butif you'll lof me go this timo I'll never do &0 any more,"” —Tho Journal suys a Sioux City (ianfiomnn knocked g wifo down with a billel of wood Thursday night, He is o gront, strapping fol- low, while shois n small woman'; but his oz cuso for atriking her with tho billat was that be is too mucli of s gentloman to striko a womau with his flst. —A gentloman built a wing to his houss, con: sisting of a cellar, o libraty on the ground floor, and u bedroom above. Ho asked thio opinion o a friond about it, who replied: “Ny doar fol. low, T am soiry to see you have lost vow souses." *“ How ?" exclaimed tha other. “\Why, o bon vivant and s literary man, a4 you are, read over your wino and to sloop “over you: baoks,” —A Henver County, Ponusylvanin, mau (hrest ens to bring suit against a young farmor whe porsiat in fitting up with his_dwughtor Sunday nights till £ o'elock in the momin';. Tho stern paront claims, firstly, that tha foll lowing day be. ing wash-day, his gal amn't of uo acoount; weo ondly, that if thoy conld_only uso two chairs the oue thoy do uso wouldn's vost o muoh fo, Topairy, —Tho Revicw snys: ““A Poorin lottor-car rior, aftor walking nfoe milow and delivorin, the samo letter to 187 men, none of whom would re- coive it, uat down on a fire-plug and wopt boe cause Pocahontas was such o fool s to oatel the old man’s war club."” put my money in tha snvingy bnnk, when can I({zut 16 out ngain ? "asiced one ot the nowly-nrrived. Och " snid his friend, ‘*sure an' if you put it in fo-day you can draw it out to-morroiv by giving sixty days’ notice,” “ What's tho ‘matter thiuro,, Alico? Don't your shaos {1t?” 4 XNo, papa, thoy dow't it mio at ail," replied the littla one, * Wh; thoy don’t evou squealk when I go out fora walk,” —Couyorantion in thoe horsc-car: First Young Lndy—TFather rays that wo girls. must bo aco- nomiecal, for the panio has shiuck him, What doo your father ay? Socond Young Lody—Oh, o don’t say much ; you know pa is 80 slow that I don't beliov ha'll hear the anicis in town 1l It as most gona nway. —A wifo wanted hor Lusband to sympathizo with her iu & feminino quarrel, but be refused, snying, ** 1've lived long onough to loarn that ono womsan 18 just as good as anothor, if not bottor.” #* Aud I," votorted tho exnsperatod wifo, ‘“bavo livod long enongh to lonrn that ono may s Just =8 bad a8 anothor, if uot worae |" DANUERBIES, What aro you goiug to give your wife's mothe, for Chuistmos? ~Now that slnting s sot in_care shonld bo tukon to wvoid tho sir-holen. It is wurprising _the smouut of woiatura un nir-hole contuinm, —Iu viow of our war prospocts, it is paintul to witness the forocions aspact of tlosa paoplo wha huve passed their 46th yoar, . boy living on the Sugar Iollow road ata tweuty-ono buckihent onken one day insl wook, and do disturbed Div stomach s to cause hin =) | denth in threo days after, The Inst words hu utterod woro of modest trinvmph, . Ho snid; 1 nhm;i ‘am 1" ~A Troy editor took his wifo to Now York Friday, Tho conduotor, when ho cawe ulong, revognizad our ‘Proy brother us entitlad to fros paesage, but, not kiowing the lindy, whi to Liim, ** Ly thin lady o fmoad of yours No, uo," y".ml the Troy editor, In hasto; *uho is my i —It waa abaut 2 o'olock Fridey morning that s, Honnessoy, of Nolson utioet, thinkiig sho heard a noiuc it the kitolen, cropt out of bod und 1o that room to see if it was not Heunessoy, Who had boon oxpected in for sevoral hours, Ou reavhing tho kitohon sho found her lord and mustor sitting on tha floor, with his now silk hat in botwesn his knees, sud in the hat sove cral dricd horrings sud about two quorts of wator, My, Henuessey was oyeing the misture with profound gratitieation. “John lionnes- " eronmod tho llhl{, “* what ara you deing " o Buy," gou : *, XIH" inquired Mz, flonnessey, wills o Jook or BUrpriso, *Why, Matilda, .I'm (bio!) sturiing i Jhiol) aquachutn for ou, Ortchusuar? &