Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 14, 1873, Page 11

. U'HE CHICAGO DAILYs TRIBUNIE RECOLLECTIONS OF A CRITIC. The Autoblogrnphy of Henry Fothorgill Chorloy. Reminisconces of Ne ¥. Willly, Lady Blessington, Count I0rany, Waltor Suvage Lundor, Lord Lytton, Snme uel RRogors, faul do Kock, Southoy,y aud Othor Promincut Porsonnges. From the New York Times, Tho earcor of Mr. Chorloy might be citod a8 an illustration of tho ill-naturod sssortion that critics aro brokon-down or unsuccesstul authors. For thirty-fivo years ho hold a prominent posi- tion on the ataff of the London Atheneum, dolng much careful work in the way of litorary und musieal oriticlem; but tho vontures ol his owa which ho made during this samo poriod in the way of plays, dramas, and novols, woro nearly all such comploto fallurcs that, at ono timo, wo find him oxclaiming, ** 8ave In the more Onanclal viow, I do not care much about profit, but it is droary work to writo on and on and ko no way.” This Iack of apprecintion of his Iabors, and the atmosphera thrown around his enrly youth by the faot that his family were Quakors, sod that ho was compollod to atother his litorary and nrtistio tastes for a poriod, be- caneo his frionds inslsted upon his drudging away nt tho desk of a counting-house in Liver- pool. tended to render him so ascotio in disposi- lion that ho naturally developod into o OILITIO OF THE BEVENER HOLT, and {n ho labors of that chilling profession tho largor part of his lifo was spont. It seoms curl- ous that, whilo ho was go keenly sensilive to tho vriticlsms upon his own original productions, he sould not ouly deal morcilessly with those of othora whom ko saw strnggling in the samo walle of lifo, but that he could also maintain, as he seems to Lave done, real fudifforonce to tho ani- mositics whien his own severitios aroused, Doubtless the rotalintion thus provoked proved a orlous obatacle in tho way of his literary suc- coss, Not only did tho Athencum itsolf critiolue his produotions coolly, but from numecrous other rourcos hio had abundant proof that the encmies whom bis too caustic pen had oalled into oxiat enco wore keenly on the lookout for him., One writer, for instanco, spoke in o published ro- viow pf ouo of his works of the * Chorloys ani chaw-bacons of literaturo,” and from a private edmirer ho once recoived n lotter, written in vory black ink, and bogiuning “you womat! | 1" Of theso conrse persounlitica Mr. Chorley writes: “Ican truly say they only disturbed mo funsmuch as they placed bard matorial obsta- oles {n the way of iy maintaining myself as a litorary mon.” Theso aunoyaucos, however, had their compensations in the friondship of numerous tl:’“"‘"‘" emiuent in literaturo, art, and music, with whom his profossion throw hiin in contact, sud who wero pationt cnongh to bear with the occontricitios, and discorning enough to rocognizo the worth and ability of this storn eritic. 8till tho multitude, oven thoso directly intorestod in literary matlors, raroly care abont the life of o critio, " Aftor tho world hes passed Its judgmont upon anauthor or & composer it is of vory little moment whothor one or another may havo pradicted his success, but the appotito for reminircences of those who mny have been populne favorites cannot be appoased, and it is his dosire for u knn\vlodfia of tho mon and women whom Mr. Chorley know that will securo for 1thunu volumos a largo circlo of intorested teadors, - Alr. Chorley’s rocollections of I8 OWK FAMILY sre worth an allusion. An suntof whom he tolls was distinguished by not a little readiness and wit, a8 tho followiug incidont will show, While staying wilh somo friends in n country house, tho family was surprised ono day by tho descent upon -them of a large party who zounted on finding a dinner. Iverything but tho dessert was finally provided, and, for this part of tho repast, nothing could be found save » basket of burd greon peuts, set_asido for stew- Ing. These, the wlumsical girl insisted, should bo prosented at tho proper tmo. Whon she saw thom coming, sho oxclaimed in & voico of do- lighted surpriso, *“Ato not these the famous Dleopatra pears 7 'Tho strategem was success- ful; the dish was cleared, and * Cleopatra ears” becamo a byword in the family a8 a sym- ol of much thet can bo moedo to pass wuster, and even become populur, It acemy pathier odd that one of Mr. Chorley’s storuly eritiesl temper should have counted'as one of i life-long and most valued fricuds o wriler who produced so much that was purely superficisl a8 did the Jate N. P, WILLIS, . Mr. Chorloy met hima in 1834, while travaling in Ituly. ‘Hosaysof him: **Chore was somothing yory agrecablo and fascinativg in his mannor— » sort of gontlo flnttory that made you feol as if he had become peculiarly iutorested in you." Half apologetically, he ndds, “1 have "been always (oo prono £o attach myself to any ouo who would lot wo, 8o took him up on his own showing., Then Le was & litorary man of my own ugo, and sbout wmy own means, with as much loss of thought ne'hio Liad more of claver- ness. Aud I bolieve for a time he did like me in his way; gave mo good advice about dress, mounors, ko.—a litilo' too magnificently I now think, and certainly was of use Lo me in making me modulate my voice, Wo Huucdnpnrt of every day togother; drosmed dreams and schemed schemes, end cauvassod our tailors' bills, ate.” This Inst touch is tharoughly ehar- neteristio of tho mon ho was deseribing, ns isalso Mr. Ghorley's statement that dIr. Willis loft London at that time full of tho intention of murrying a Scoteh lady with red bhawr, wliom he lntiumdiud fullen in love with him, Mr. Willis fancicd that Lady Blossington, too, was smitton, and fe Leda * boxfull of locks of hair g tro- plies of Lis Consinentul Dou Gioyannism," M, Chotley, by tho way, owed to Mr. Willis an intruduction to LADY BLESSINGTON, and hor friendship esews to iave been ono of the brightest passoges in his not very cheorful life. Blejs described as having beon ‘possessed of wondexful vivacity, and of a remarkablo power of cutertainiug hersolf by Ler own storios, the keonnexs of un Irishmouin ropartee, strange turus of language, aud bright touches of sharacter. Hor tasto in everylhing was to- mard the gay, the supexb, the luxurious, but on the whole oxcellontly good. Hor eyo was as quick as lightning, hor resourcos wore many and original,” M. Cliorloy rl.-guln indignantly the ohutgo that sho was & cold-Eiuoded und unserup- nlous adventuress, avd cluims that tha “courngo with which sho cluog to her attachmants loug titer thoy bronght hor ouly shame and sorrow, spuke for tha atlectionato hentt which no luxury vould spoil and no vicissitndes sour,” OF COUNT D'ORSAY'S uaint and airy-wit we have oue or two admira- tio specimens. When Sir lonry Dulwer was sont on & wismion to Constantinople, © Quells be- lize,” was tns Count's oxclamation, “‘fo send hin thero among thoso Turks, with their bonrds, thir shawls, those Lig, handsomo fellowe, a. lit- Jo man liko that I Thoy might as well havo sent ouo whitebait down tho” Dardanolles to give the Turke an ides of English fish,” On one occa-’ eion tho Count was scated at some dinner party | pext Lady lollaud, who Loppoued to ba in one of her imperious humors, BShe dmp[wd ber nap- kin tho Count picked it up gallauily ; thon lier (an, then Lor fork, thew hor spoon, then her glass—anch articlo the Count gallautly restored to her, but at last, when shie drca:puu her nwp- ‘sin a sccond timo, ho turned and callad to ono of tho fovtmon, * Put my couvert on the floor,” 10 oxclaimed, **I will flulsh my dinnor thero ; it will bo so much more couveniont tomy Lady Holland." WALTER BAVAGK LANDOR tomes bofore us at ouo of Ludy Blessington’s soirees. Br. Chorloy desoribes him as haviug the finest mun's hend ho hnd over soon, 1le La the Julmsonisn disposition to tyrauuizo in his tall, and lny down tho law; bub this wos ro- strained and refined by wu Old-World courtesy ad doferenco toward his Lright Lostoms, for swhich ebivalry ig tho only right word, Now and then, Lowever, Laudor would bresk out into pntu[am. and paradoxical remarks, as Lo huppon- 8d to do iu the course of o couvorsation with M. Rio, the author of Art Chretien, of all things in tho world choosiug to attuck the Panlws, Lady Blessington, with hor_quick tact, notloing that AL Rio wincod undor Lundor's irroveront criti- eisms, skillfully turned the discussion by romarke ing in_her arch, inimitablo way, “ Do write wimething botter, My, Landor." Is lm); pened thut ot theso soirces and olss. where, .lr. Chorley was thrown ulo froquent sontiet with L L it o describos him us amazingly solf-conceited,— ";‘u thoroughly wetin ahum'im but thon it 'is Iho rlchest satin” Ilo wado porsonul sppenr- ance bis idol, aud vulued Voltaire us much on bolug & tall man as on his sutites, cssnys, &o, #ome _nadverse oritiolsmy which Mr, Chorley assod upon some of Hubwor's productions in- ron-upl.ml their frioudship, but the broach soomy to have beon hoaled Inter in lifo, Lho slghte put upon Lin oceasionally by tho mon of mark whom ha mot are now and then frauldy rolated by Ar. Choriny. SAMUEL ROOLNS, tho poot-bankor, scoms to have concolyod a dls- liko™ for tho critic, which lod bim to treat him with ;Xmmuuuu and boorish rudoness. ¢ What~ ovor tho cano might bo,” writes Mr. Chorloy, #3r. Tlogors did hia bost to malo mo tool smail and uncomfortablo; nud 1t was ofton done by ro- ,mntlul{’thn snmo diggourngomont, Tho gcons would bo a dinner of oight, at which he would eny loud enough to Lo heard: *Who is that young man with red hair?” mosning me. Who suswor would bo, “MNr, Ohorley,” eto,, oto.; * Nover hieard of him boforo," was the rojoindot'y aftor which Rogors would turn to his dinner, like one who, having disposoed of & nuisance, might uufold his napkin and ent his soup in peace. But tho most gratuitously ill-naturod speoel: of which Mr. Chorley was the victim, ho brought on himaelf by an act of politoness to Rogors, At an_‘‘antiont concort” Mr, Chorloy ohanced tohave a moat noxt tho dowagor Lady Essox, Blio was ono of Rogors' ?rlmu favorites, Mr. Chorloy thpl:nuLl to motico tho old gontloman ciooping down tho side avonue, botwixt the bonclics, at a loss for & soat, and courloously uroso, romarking to his noighbor as hio did 8o, *Now, 1 aball glvo up my_placo to Mr, Rogora good-night.” While Mr. Chorloy was stooping Tor his bat—*' Come,”" said Lndy Essox, in her cordinl way, “Como, Mr, Rogors, here is n sont for you by me,” 'Thank you,” said the old gon~ tloman, fixing his desd éyes on Alr. Ohorloy ns Lo was doiug his Dbest to get aut of the way. & Thank you, but 1 don't like your company.” In placiug this incldont on rocord, it must be confossed that Mr, Chorloy completoly revengos Timmolf upon his brutal tormontor, I'hose who aro familiar with the eccontrioitios of Rogors do not need to bo told Ohorley suffered from tho petulant tempor of this singular man. TAUL DE KOCK, a8 the transiatious from his wiitings have made him known to those on thiy side of tho Atlantlo, it an author vogarding whoso personality littlo ouriosity is folt, yot thero is somothing attract- iva in tho doscription wo Lavo of him as Mr. Chorloy found him at his houso in Parfs, Iav- ing loft n noto of introduction at his residonce iu the Boulovard 8t. Mattin, tho eall waa shortly aftor roturned. Dir, Chorloy writes: I apened the door, and there stood u short, middle-aged man, with & very Ernpouaonuiug countouance, but “futolligont and melancholy rathor than goy, vory thin and lougish black hmir (o' s (1899), Indced, all but bald), o flno_forchend, aud mild, but obaotvant, oyes, Ho was dressed in bluck_pellaso, faced and cuffod with plush. ‘Je suis Paul do Kock.' I was thoroughly glad to soo him, and wolcomed bim my best in bad Frouch; told him of the pleasuto I bad recoived from’ bis_wrilings, and we had some plensnut talk, Iischaractor seom- od to mo truo to the fecling, and simpliclty, aud shrowdnoss of Lis novels, L have yot to find whothier i®bo true to those loosor parts which (pity on them) makoko beautiful a sorios s sealed book to English rendors in genoral. But as Le spolte with aflection of A ron 10 years old (who piny tho piatio very well), L will beliove biia to 0 n good father at ull_evonts,” Coming; back {o England again, we have briof rocolleutfons of souTHEY, who, Mr. Chorloy suvs, answered his expocta- tions moro thoroughly than any Jitorary man o over met. “‘1lis faco is at onco shrowd, thought- ful, and quicl, if not irritablo, in its oxpression —singular doflcioncy of span in ils lower por- tiou, but notdeficiericy of feature oroxprossion ; hig manver cold but utill ; in conversation, bland and gontle, and not nearly so. dogmatic s his writings would lond one to imngiuo ; talking, and talking woll, o _good denl about Americn, o wan sposking of Misa Martinean pationtly, but withont respect, describing hor rs talking more glibly than” any woman ho bad oven seon, and with such a notion of her own infallibility," Hood is described “us quaint, ns lazy, ns_dent a8 ever, but always ono of the most original poople in hiu drollories I over met, Thoro fu o certain indescribablo oddity that amuses me more thun I can express,” Our own authoress, 31138 EEDAWICK, come within the circle of Mr. Chorley'aacqunint- anoo about this pame time (1839). Sho s do- cidedly the pleasnutest Amorican woman I bave evor acon,” ho writes, ** with more of a turn for humor and less Amorican seotatianism. The twang, to bo sure, there is in plenty ; and the toilot 18 tho dowdiness (not the finory) of the backwoods ; but thon she is livly, kind, heart- warm ; and I foel, Bomehow or other, almost on friendly torma with hor, thongh Tnover spokomora than twonty conscontive words to her” Later hoadds: ‘“Miss Sedgwick hasbeen roturning the cumfiilment of all English jonrunlists by putting us all round on paper to s degreo which is too bnd. 8he asled, it sooms, poor Miss Mitford's sorvants what \\'nL{oE thoy recoived and tho like ; oud I hear has wiitten that which is likely mont sadly to compromise umo of the Italinn “"'X““ in Amerlea, who woro negotiating with the Aus- irian Governmont for a rastoration to their fami- Ties. I liked hor #0 well in privato, a8 an honest- minded, simple-mannered, cultivated woman, that T am renlly more voxed than thero is any oc: casion for, I foar the next eago of Transatinn- tio hirds will not run much chaico of being very liberally dinnered and soirced hero ; only ovory- thing passes oft like a ning dnfi' wonder,” At a later period of Lis life, Mr. Chorloy's vo~ cation as A MUSICAL CRITIO threw him into the most intimate relationa with lendelssohn, and the numerous cordinl lotters Irom the gront composer, which are given, afford abundant proof of tiie heartiness of tho friond- ship botwcen tho two, which endured until Men- dolssohn's death, Gounod, Chopin, Liszt, Moy- erbeer, and Borlioz nmnni; musicinns ; Grisi and Jonny Lind among vocalista; Mrs. Drowning, Diclens, Carlyls, and our own Hawthorne among anthors, are_but the more_prominent of thoee with whom Dfr. Chorloy had intercourso, wore or loes confidential and protracted. o speaks of all of these as fowother men conld, for Lio approached them with'his critical facultios on the alert, and the domands of personal friond- ship wero nover allowed to take procedence whon e waa called ou to digchargea professional duty. This unswerving honosty, his thorough conscien~ tiouenéss, and iis intonso sincerity gnined him & rospect raroly vouchsafed to one of his profes- sion, and give to the reminiscences with which thoee volumos ara filled u such worka possess. "The Inst twenty yenrs of Mr. Chorloy's lifa—he died Feb, 16,1872, in the Gith your of his nge— woro spont in Eaton Place West, London, ~An incldont relatod by Mr. Howlett, who nu{lplr menta tho autobiographical, passages of these volumes, is worth giving as illustrative of TILE GRIX HNUMOR ! of which Mr. Chorley Limsolf was eapable on oceasion. Whilo inspecting tho housa which he finally loasod, tho renl esiato agent who was showing it to' him made some apology fer tho narrowness of the atmircase, ‘¢ Nover mind,” replied Clorloy, ** I shall require & very narrow coftin,” *I have sold & groat many leases of similar housoe, sir, but I nover houtd a gentlo- mau make such an observation before,” was the ostonished man's rejoindor. It is cortainly n #atisfoction to know, as Mr. Ifowlett remarks, that, * whilo Mr. Chorley's couviction that he should spond Lis lnst years in tho house was Juatifiod by tho ovont, that tho staircase in ques- tion was wituess to many n plonsant scono bo- fora rondering him this lnst sorvice,” —— ALL EQUAL BEFORE GOD, A Brahmin on s Intus-pod Ouca wrolo thio Lioly nama of God § Then, plunting it, ho asked In prayer For sowo now friit, unknown aud rare, A siaz upon tho dusty road Toll fuinting 'neath ha hoavy lond 3 Tho Brabnih, thoughticss, straighlway ran And lifted up the falon man, Tho deed scarce dono, ho stood nghaat At touching ono benoatl b Tiehold, cried ho, T om nnolean 3 Bly hnide bave clusped the vilo and mean, God ray the shindow on Lfs face, And wrought u miracls of graco's Tho burlud seod uprosa froin eurth, Aud bloomed and blossomod futo birth, 1ta Ieaves woro marked with lotters rars, And glualy roud tho Brabmin there Theso words : ** Conut all of equal costo; Then count thyself tho least und last,” S NScratching Matches on o SHlk Drossy, Frrom the Fond dw Lao (IFis) Commonwealth, Des, 0, ‘Ihore waus r!ultu o comnmotion at he rosidenve of Mr. Charlos Rliodes, on Western avonuo, about 11 o'clook this forenvon, A firo wan discovored In tho olothes pross, Ioopla rushed in snd removed such of tho louse- lold goods as thoy conld from the building, but the flamos ‘wore extinguishod o fore much dnmange had been done tho house, But the clothen iu that wardrobe wore sadly dis- turbed, Are, Rhodoes lost four or five dressos, one a sill, and Mr, R.'s oyercoat, soveral puirs of punty, and o dross cont woro singed out of whape, ~low tho firo caught was a mystory for an hour after it occurred. ‘Lhoiv little 4-yoar old boy told ono of the neighbors that ho "had hod o good time wseratchiug malohes on his mother's silk dress, ‘Tho myatery was solyed. i seems that tho littlo follow kad & fondnows for liFhl.lug matehies, 'Lhis is not » vory dosira- bla timo to lmve one's oxtra clothing do- stroyed, bub Mr, aud Mra, Ithodes liave reason to congratulnte thomsolvos that they Jont, no uore, undor the clrounustunces, veluo which vory faw that others besides Mr,' THE LAST PRINCE OF CONDE:* A True Romance, From Appletona’ Journal. Louls Philippo hiad sat upon tho thronsyacated by his distant kineman, Charles X., a fow days moro than n mouth, With his xmiable wifo and Ly intorosting young family of childron, Lo had Juat transforrod his Louschold peuntos from the ologant apartmonts of the Dalala Royal to the moro oplondid ealoons and cabluets of the Tullories, A littlo more than a month bofore ho 1Lind boon a privato nobloman, living with com- fort, but scarcoly with luxury, altornately at the Talnla Royal and at his country rotroat; now ho waa tho bourgools sovorolgn, the Kiug of tho middlo classos, and the foundér of & now royal dynasty. ' Tho King had just brenkfasted, on the morn- ing of Aug, 27, 1830, whon it was announced to Lim that & mounted mossongor- had arrived 1n hasto from Chautilly with intolligence of sorious importanco, The man was forthwith sdmitted totho presencoof Louis Philippo, with whom woroone or two BMinistors, his sucratary, and tho young Dukos of Olnrtres and Nomours, his sous, **8iro,” snid tho messonger, * His Highnons tho Princo of Condo is dead.” Tho King roos in surprieo, and asked : ‘* When did that bappen ?" “Ho was found this morning, sire, bang- ing to one of tho shuttors of hia+bedroom-win- dow, by his handkerchiof, quite dead.™ “What! DId ke commit suicldo #" ** It must havo boen so, Your Majosty. There aro no traces of foul play.” *This was ot Chautilly 2" At Chautilly.” ** Aud who wero in the house " A small party of tho Princo’s frionds, sire, and Madnme do Fouchercs, That is all. Louts Phulippo turned to M. Guillaume, his socretary, and requostod him to proceed, with Mesars. do Rumlgny, Pasquier, Do Simonyillo, and Cauchy, to the Chatenu of Chantilly, ‘Noxt 1n blood relationsbip to the decoased Princo wore tho Princes do Roboan; but the King either did not thigk, or did not seo fit, to sond thom u noti- fiention of the #ad ovent. Tho strango news soon sproad through Paris, extondod to tho boulevards, to ‘the Champs Elysoes, to tho sristocratic Faubourg 8. Gor- maln, and oven to tho romote, irregular streots and aqualid closos of Montmartro snd St. Antoine, Snfpus and cabrots, cafes, and tho coulissos of tho thontro, wero in a hubbub of umnzement and conjecturo ovor the mysturious oceurronce ; for the old man whose suddon and smgular taking off- thus stirred the Parisian world throughout that and many subscquont doys was the last of au illusirious line, wifoless and childless, dwelling almost solitury in the augiont and sproious chintesu, whero tua splondor of tho Coudos had .rivaled, in more than ono genoration, that of Dowbon royaity itself, Ilnd tho poor old Prince, boart-broken st tho ~ downfall of the Honver-unainted = King, sought coneolation in donth # Ilnd his mind givon way, and thus led to an irresponsible suicide? Or iwas this the work of an assaxnin, porhinps of some familiar of Ins houschiold, of some pretonded friond, who had some seoret motive for dopriving him of ex-~ istonce ? The many conjocturos which swayed hither, and thitber the groups of oxcited gossipers did not stop short with theso questioningy, King Louis Philippo had not. his crown by the ununimous voica of nris, and thero wore thous- ands in tho eapital who, within a month of Lis ac- ceaston, wora Dbittorly disaffocted agninst him. The partisans of Charles X. and those of s ro- public woro oqually oxnsperated ; and any hinted taint upon the King's charnctor'spart was sure to bo caught up and cagorly ropoated, aud to find its way in oxaggorated rumor to every quar- tor of tho city. 'Laero were knowing meu ou the boulovards in those August days, with sly looks and wagging heads, who gave u new turn to the suggostions of the causes of Heuri de Bour- bou's sudden death. 3 “Thore is something” they enid, “ bunouth what apponrs, There i8 o dstker wmystery than you guoss. There isa hidden romance belind this doath-scone. Thoy toll you that the Prince of Conde loved Charlos X. and hates Louis Thilippe ; that uhu{riu at tho full of Charloshas cuuw[’his death, Yet, look you, this man, who 80 butes the King thot ho dies because ho is Kiug, boquenths his 1mmenss propertios—his noblo Chatoau of Chantilly, #ith its amplo parks nnd its broad neres—to this very' King's infant son. The Duke d'Aumnle, almost o babs in arms, is the hoir of the Prince of Condo. Did thoold Princo love this infant? No. Did ho Jove the iufaur's father? No. Io hated him, Here, mes amis, it o doop, deep. plot. Mndamo de Feucheres, dopond upon it,. is in the confi- denco of Louis Philippe; and Madame do Feucheros lives in the Louse of Condo; nay, from the boudoir of Madamo de I'eucheren {o ihe enamber of the Prince of Conde thero is & private spiral staircase.” 3 'Thus it was covertly charged that Louis Phil- ippo know.more of the cause of Condo’s doath than the world in general Imagined ; and sus- picion was sought to be thrown upon tho King of boing implicated in some way in the event, sinco the Kiug's son, and the womun who had enjoyed Conde’s confidonce dure ing his last.years, alone profited by it. It wus not unknown that Madomo do Foucneros liad boen more than ance received privately av the Tuilerios winco Louis Philippa’s accession ; and it was not less gonerally belioved that, with many virtues, the King wai inordinatoly parsl- monlous and grasping. Ilis onemios, at lenst, coucluded that Conde's fortune had not been left, without the assistance of some ocoult in- trigue, to the son of a man whom ho detostad from the bottom of his soul. T'he illustrious descont of tho dead Prince, the romsutio memories aud picturesque honuly of the placo whore the tragedy oceurrod, nud the wingular _connection of the nowly-éothroned family with Condo aud with his mystorious death, pivo to tho history of the event much more inforest thun usually attends ihe stories of the denths of Princes. Louis Joseph ITenri de Bourbon waa tho linoal descondant and beir of that Lowls of Condo who, in the seventeenth contury, won, by his foats of arme and_statesmonship, the title of ' tho froat.” Ho wol born in Taris in 1756, and was 86 yoars of ?gu when the rovolutionnry States- Conoral of Franco assombled ab Versailles, Iiis {father, the thon Princo of Conde, was a zoalous adheront of tho royal houso with which ho was councoted by tho ties of blood, by patrician in- torest, and by loyal affeation. When tho storm burst in 1700, both sire and son flod from thoir Iuxurious homo at Chantilly to sharein the vicis- situdes of tho royalist emigres, Theo son is doscribed a8 having boon, at this time, a warm-blooded, handsome ‘young man, with the sallow Bourbon tint aid the dark Bour- bon brow and eyo, and the horeditary_banghty geitand aquilino noss, of the Condes. Lho Princo, the fathor, was now too old and feoblo to taka an active part in the hot struggle whioh ensued betwoon tho allicd Gorman armies on the ono eide and tho forces of the now-born repub- lio on tho other ; but Louls, inspirod by family prido aud patrician zea), booamo one of thomany aristocratio omigranis who took sorvico undor the banners of the apsburg aud tho Hohenzol- lorn to flght against their own countrymen, 1o recognized fu tho tricolor tho symbol of na- tional dirgraco rathor than national sover- eiguty, and thero sooms littlo doubt, from bhis snbscquont caroor, that his motive was ay much an oarnest boliof u tho right of mon- archy and the abominntion of demooracy, as tho solf-interest which rosented tho perscoution of i own family and tho doprivation of its cstatos, 1o nccopted o Captainey 1 an omigrant rogie mont, aud took a courngeous and wotive part in the famous campaign on the esstern frontior, in which Dumourioz was the able but unsuccessful lender of thoe republican forcos, Gondo romained With the allies for throo years, whon, wounded at the assnult of Borschiot, ho was compolled to rotiro fram tho sorvice, 11e lived for somo time in seclusion ou the Continent, ohsorvant llmuql.l inactivo; and in 1800 rennivod to England, In tha mountimo his eldost son—for ho hiad martled and lost his wife boforo the lovolution—liad 'zro\rn to manhood, the old Priuco was doad, und ho only awnited & favorable moment to onter into the possession of his splondid family estates in Franco. But s toriiblo calamity, blighting bLiu lite, snd plunging Lim into & melanchaly whioh soldom afterward disuppenred, visitod him Dboforo he agaln saw the familiar shoros of his untive land, s son, the noblo and promising voung Lule d'lnghlon, havivg buen waized ut Paris by Napoleon, wus ordored by that oruel tyvant to bo shot without trial as a Bourbon traitor. Tho e'omh was Lnkon nl dead of niglt to the dark diteh of that gloomiost of fortrosues, Vingonnos, und thoro was savrificed a lifo of brilliant promies to tho iutolerant jealousy of the Ewperor, Tho story lu told "in Irench *Tho maln fucts in this arifcloaro taken from M, Louls Munc’s * Listoire do Dix Ans " (LB30-140), the world history; ond tho fathor was onuod At the crime, oft » lonoly and dono- Into old man. With D'E“lim““ oxpirod the last_hopo that tho splondld lino of Conde would be perpotuated 5 tho extled Princoe bohold in hlmnolpum Iast of tho raco which had so long illumined the nnnals of the monarchy. Tho day of Bourbon rotribution camo, Napo- loon, sconrged at Waterloo, dlanpflunmd from tho whirlpool of European politica; Lonls XVIII, found himself at last scouro on the throna of his fathors; and among his first acts was a sum= mons to tho faithtal noblosse, so loug cxilea and ‘wandorors, to roturn to tholr eatatos and reaume their titles. Among thoso who availed thowmn- kelvos of the royal invitation was Louls of Conde. Ho had loft France a atalwart and flory iuung‘mnn of 83; ho rolumed a_grizzled, ont, wrinkled old man of 60, Tils Parls houeo, and bis vhnteaux aud domnine of Saint- Louand Ohantilly woro restored to lim, aud to thouo ho rotired, his spirits too broken, his mind too muoh engrossad by the sorrows of tho post, to take part in the ceromonies of tho court or tho prlitios of the dnr a In tho lovoly snd scoluded bourg of Chantilly wera itunted his ancontral castlos and park. No domain _in Franco ls moro reploto with illustri- ous and romnutic momorios, none is more fit tobe the homo of Priucos; while, sinco the do- structive dnys of the first Revolution, tho sad grandour of an imposing ruln Las Loen added to the entique ploturcsquoness of tho spot. Tarl Btanhopo desoribes its bosutios with au enthu- sinsm whioh over; p\lFrim to the home of the Great Condohaa himsolf folt, tlmui(h norhaps not. ablo to givo it oxprossion so gracoful and eloquont. Hosrys: *I could atill find ecopo to admiro the wild rocossen of that unprunod forost, thogo lim- bid and gushing strosms, thoso light-groon Ar- bolo poplars, which bave taken root among the ruius of the Grand Chatoau, and which now sur- round it with _their tbuivurmg shiado ; those mossy paths and those hawthorn-boughs ; those l(mluns rostored with care, and whoro thomost bonutiful orauge-trecs and the most brilliant flowers ure onco moro shedding their frograuco,’ Chantilly Obatenu aud forest, imposing and Inz- urious 08 they woro when the Inst Conde turned his wonry stops thither, were but a splondid ruju of thelr formoer stato. Tho stolues and foun- tolus, the terrncos, with their riobly-carved pedeatals, tho groat canal, tho noblo old Grand Choteau, whore tho Grand Mouarque wandored o8 tho giost of his grentost subject, had disap- Joared: tho vast stabley wero u gowploto though mposing ruin ; the statoly pastires wore over- grown, tho noble forost waa choked with brush, Yot the Chatonu of St. Loustill remained, and wasd all too largo and splondid for the desolute futher of D'lnghicn; -tho forest was utill unsurpassed in boauty and follnge; and princoly comfort might atill be enjoyed in tho spacious gnrdens and the vonerablo halls, Tho old man might sit hero nnd drenm of that olden time when his famous ancostors, weatied of ‘¢ action and rounown,” sought Lhe luxurious ersoe and re- tivomont of this very spot; where tho revels rivalod those of Versailles, and whore the Groat Condo reignod in the midat of agenial and layish Lospitality, 1t is sald that Louis XIV. wna g0 Jealous of Condo's good fortuno in possossing such a rotreat, that on_one aceasion he throaten- ed to soize Chantilly and appropriato it to him- self, by virtuo of a provieion in the Treaty of thos| Dyrenoes. Condo bowed roverentinlly, and so- sponded: ** Sire, so be it; you may commund, Lut [ boz you to Toave moat Chantilly as your steward,” T'ho King saw the old Princo's monning, and was prudont onough to forogo his domand. Mauy storis aro told of Lhe subsequent visits of Louls to Chautilly, oue at lenat of whioh, ro- lated with infinite ‘{;raca by Madame Soviguo, cannot bo omitted. It ia a story—like that which ramuiug to be told of the lastof the Condos—of chingrin and doath; though tho causes of the chagrin. and the manuer of the deaths wore in singular contrast with those which put an oud to the illustrious linoage of Louis do ourbon, The following is & translation of tho account givon by Madamio do_ Sovigno, and tho trath of it is vouched for by moro than ouo contomporary m\thori!‘.z[: ‘The King (Louis XIV.) arrived at Chantilly on Thursdny eveuing; thio promenndo nud tlio collation served in spots carpeted with jonquils —all this went off excolleatly. They aupped ; thero were soveral.tables " at " which tho ronsts wore wantiug, in consequence of more dinners being required than had beon expected. - Thiy Tind @ great effcct upon Vatol (Vatol was the Prince of Conde's chief French cook), 1o ox- clnimed several timos, ¢ My honot is gone! Horo is sn affront whioh I~ caumot bearl’ o il to Gounille, My hoad awims for twolve nights' I havo not slopt pray assist mo Ia giving tho ordera, Gour: ville consoled him ng well as ho could. Tho roast which had been wanting, not at the King'stnble, Dut at {he twonty-fifth, Was always reonrring to bis thoughts. CUourville informed Monsiour the Princo of his state of mind. Monsicur the Princo went as fav a3 Vatol's own chumber, and #aid to hin “Vatol, all is golug woll: nothing could bo finer than the Iflnq’i suppor.’ 4 Monsiognour,’ replied ho, ‘your kindness overpowors me, I know that tho roast was want- ing at two of the tables," * Not at all," said the Prince, ‘all is going por- {oct{ilw«ll: do not distress yourselt,' “iduight comes., The freworks did not suc- coed. “Thoy nro covored by a cloud; they cost six- teon thousand francs.” At 4 o'clock in the morning, Vatel goos sbout everywhere ; he finds overy one asleep; hemeets a little boy who is m-mglng two loads of sea-flsh; ho inquires of n— 4t4Tg tha all?* ‘¢ Yes, sir,’ repliod the other, not knowing that Vatol bud sont to all the seaport towns. Valel waits somo_time; the other burvoyors do uot como; ho becomes . wildly excitod; he thinks thero will be no furthor supply; ho finda Gour- villo, and says to Liim; 5 “448ir, I shall nover survive this affront.' **Gourvillo laughs at him, ““Vatel goes up to his room, plnces his sword against the door, and runs it throngh bis Lieart; but it was only at tho third stroke, for ho gave himaelf two thut wore not mortal, that he falls to the ground dond. ‘! Tho sca-flsh, howover, arrive from all sides; Vatel is wanted to distribute thom. Thoy go to his room, thoy knock, they break apen the door, thioy find bim bathodl in bis own biood; thoy rush to the Princo, who is_in despair. Ho men- tions it mournfully to the Kiug; they sny it is to bo attributed to too bigh o senso of honor, ac- cording to his views; they upplaud his oharao- ter; some praise, others blawe Lis courage,” To this benutiful retroat, so redolont of romanco and former grandour, tho last Princo of Condo retired in tho early yoars of tho rostoration, muttoting, “1 lave lived long euough!” "It might Lo said that ho was alono in tho world; for neithor wife, nor children, nor near rolative, had boon spared to him. Alone, however, ho was not, but worse than alone. Already the arta of » bLeautitul, fasci- nnuni,v, and_echoming woman had brought him complotaly iuto subjoction to ber will; and to this compauion, whom ho brought with him to Chantilly, whero be provided lior'with & spaclous aud splondid snite of apurtmenls, and every luxury which wenlth cnulllflmmlru or insutiablo vanity demand, ho owed, directly or indiveolly, - bis violent doath. A mystory always hung, and hangs to, this dny, over_the origin of the Burouess do Fane choros, It in certaln thut sbe was an Ln- glishwoman, the dnughter of extromely obsoure Luglish parents, who had been bronght up in the Loudon strcets, and Lad probably beon born in somo low slum of tho metropolls. istory flrat finds hor on tho boards of Co- vt Garden Tlicatro—a young, and radiontly handsome girl, performivg iuforior parts, and scommgly introduced rathor on account of {hio fascinationsof hor porson than tho brillianoy of her histriome talents. Irom. the stugo sho paatied into tho rauks of tha domi-mondo ; and, aftor a fevorish caroor, sho succoodod in cap- tivating {hoe worn heart of the old Prinve of Condo, Bho was aluo boloved at this timo by o allant and couragoons young soldior of France, ho Baron do Foticheres ; and lio, iguorant of tho rolations which oxisted botween the ci- dovant aotress and the Princo, proposed mar- ringo, wa nccepled, aud, after n Lrinl’ delay, lod her to tho ultar, Liis discovery of her relations with the Princo rosulted in an open rupture, whoraou tho fusciuated 01 Princo oponly rosorto to Oluutilly with Lis beautiful and impevious tyrant. Madume do Foucheres was not content with tho dovoted submission of tho Drinco, his Invish grutification of her every caprico, tho splondid luxury with which sho was surrounded at the chiatoau” of 8t Lou. No soonor hud sho got fultly eunsconced thero than hor greed and awbition Kot to work upon tho Prince's fonduoss ofi feart to acquiro for hiorsolf & more permancut afiluonce thun pno derivod from the living Lrive’s geuerosity, By altornatoly coaxing, wheodling, and {hrestoning hLim ; by surrounds ing him ‘with pald creaturos and sptos of hor own; by ber manner, stiraotivo alike whon it was [mporious and whiew it was foud—shio thial induced the poor, jaded old man to muke w wifl by which she would recoive at his donth, fu hor own_tight, tho eplondid’ domaius of St Lon and Doiksy, This was i 182, six yours bo- fora tho catastropho of tho sccond révolution, But ovon this concesslon did not_content her; indoad, 1t only whotted hor appotito for moro. Hoon altor, shie provailed upion hum to doviko o Lor aluo thio ancostral forest of Enghion, from which his unbinppy son hud takon his titlo, aud of which slie 10w eyen domandod aud recoived tho coualdorablo jucomo. Buccows In (hoso offorts finally stimulated her to tho grost plot of hor carcor—n plot which, with little doubt, involvad the Princo’s violent death, and wmto whioh entored, in somo mystorons way not yob dovoloped, the family of Orlonns, dostined “so soon to nscond tha throne of Franco, Mndnmo da Fouolioros now moditated a deop schoma by which o retain, after tho Princo's doath, tho vast proporiioy which she had Wheedled or browbenton him Inlo devislug to her, Should bo din, sho would linve to en- countor tho rival olaims io the estates of tho powerful family of Ttohan,—tho Princo’s uearcet hofrs,—nnd (t was necossary that she should form ‘au_alliance moro powerful still, With this viow slio sccretly communicated with the Otlesus famlly. 8he proposed to tha Duchess d'Otlonna to” porsuade the Princo of Conco Lo adopt the meg Duke d'Aumale ns his liolr; aud, in reply fo this proposal, the Duchess wroto an affectionate lotter* to this profligata woman, who lind hitherto been ahunned by tho (zrlea‘uu. and forbidden the entreo to the Palnia oyal, “I am very much touched, madamo,” this royal lndy wroto, * by what {au toll mo of your anxioty to bring’ abous that rosult which you look on a8 likely to fulflll the wishes of M. lo Ducds Bourbon; and, bellove mo, if I have tho boppiugss to find my son become bLis adopted chifld, you will rocolve from us, at all timos and in all clrcumstances, thut: support for you and yours which yon are [fiunuud to domand, and for which a mothor’s gratitude will ba for you a suro guarauteo,” Encouraged bfl Mndame do Fenohores' repre- sontations “of the favorable progress of hor gmauu-o upon tha old Princo, Louls Phitippe of rleans—soon {o be King—had tho singular in- delicacy to go in porson to tho man who ho know doteated him and all his family, and entroat him to leavo his wenith to little Aumale. Tho Princo of Coudo was thundrstruck when this plot dawn. edupon him, Ho had always despised tho Orlonns, from tho dny that l’ulllprn Egalito_bnd voted for tho donth of his vousin, Louls XVI; and now to bo importunod to make a ecion of this hiouso tho hoir of his traditional estate and for- tnuo waa o bitter surprise in his lonely old ago. But hig * poor Boplio™ did not pormit him to rost untll, wonrled and_bruken by her porslst- ency, baving, it is sald, “known no rest since this fatal mattor hud occupied bis thoughts,” de- clared that *“his blood was on flre,” and 'beon excited into many violont altorcations with Fo\lolm\'ufll he at Inst faltered. **My donth," he monued, * 15 tho only thing tliey loo for. Once thoy shall hnve obtained from me what thoy do- sire, my life may be in jeopardy,” . A8 o last rosort, Le appesled piteously to tho magnauvimity of Louis Philippe himiolf. Ho wroto to him & most touehing lottor, in which he deolarod the whole affair to bo * in- fivitoly distressing™ to him, whoroupon the wily Duke d'Orleans mado & protensa of beg- ging Madamo do Feuchores to discontinue her oftorts. 8he [wrumpwrily rofused; nor ean it be ensll{‘doub od that sho thus secrotly pleased Louls Philippe. Ono dny tho old Princo was in the billiard-room of his Paris hotol, M, SBurvel, who wasinanad- Joluing room, heard loud talking, and, going In, 1ound Condo red with rago. nly see,” exclaimod Fouchores, who was with him, i whnt & passionmonseignenr puts };ima,oll, and without a causel Try snd calm im,” ‘¢ Yes, madamo," returncd Conde, *it Is hor- rible, atrocious, thus to put o knife to my throat to make mo do a thing you know I so much ab- hor. 1Ie caught hold of her hand, and addod, gloomlls, *“Woll, plavgo the aifo i nt onco—at onco . The noxt day Conde mado a will, appointifig the Dulco d’Aumale his heir, and boriueuthhlg Madate do Foucheros a property worth 10,000,- 000 francs. o matiors #tood when tho Revolu- tion of 1830 camo, Lovis Philippo became King, and Chorlos X. an oxile, 1t was toward tho middlo of August, 1830, that tho Princo of Couds, who had now becomo per- manently moroseand melancholy, snd who nover heard tho namo of Foucheres pronounced with- out a cortain senile terror, secrotly told lua con- {ldontial valot that ho proposed to make along tour, aud to escapo from Chantilly withont tho knowledgo of thie houeobold, 1Iis strange ac- tions mennwhile attracted tho attoution and roused the curiosity of his attendants. On tho morning of tho 11thhis eye was found to bebleed- ing, aud he_oxplainad it by saying he had fallon against o tablo, but afterwards eaid his tomple had atruck against the door. Events at the chateau increased in mystery until the 26th. On the moruiuq of that day Mad- amo do Fouchieres ropaired ecar] ly to the Prince’s dressing-roons, aud svon the voices of both wors Loard, angry and threatoning. A sharp quatrel, lusting for some time, ensued, and l\?m?‘.\mo de Foucheres camo out of the rcom flushed with passion. By dinuer-time, howover, the storm soomed to hnvo possed away, Tho’ Princo ap- penred at {able, to which a few intimate frionds bad invited Dbim, sud wns observed to bo in unnsunlly good spirits. He laugbed and joked, and ato and drank bourtily. The party re- paired to the drawing-room, the whist-tables wero whooled out, and Coude took a hand at the samo_tablo with ‘Madama do Feuchoros, playing with zost till luto in the evening, and talking cheerily throughout. Finally, Lo foso, waved a good-night to each friond witll bis band, aud, aa Nio went toward the door, turned and gave thom a cheorful parting, “A demain /" 1t was the last time thut tho last Prince of Condo waa seen of mon, - Mo was accompanied to his chamber by Bon- nic, his doctor, aud Lecomio, his valot, It is worth noting that Locomto, tho valt, had beon soleoted for this servico by Feucheres, and was at ouce a epy and o croature of that designing woman, ) As Leoomto was leaving the chamber, hie asked the Princo: = *¢ At what hour will mouseigneur rise ? AL 8 o'clock.” It was now tho night of Aug. 26, and on the 81st Coudo Pmpusnd secretly to leavothe chateau, *to tuko n long jouruoy,” a8 hosnid; but his roalwproject in “taking this step can novor ba kuown. “A longer journoy than bie bad plunned was now in store for him. » Lhroughout that warmn, bright summer night all wos apparently tranquil in and about _tho old chatean. The night-watch, who pairolled iho terraces outside, from dusk Lo dawn, heard no sound issue from the vust mansion ; the domes- tics slopt undisturbed in the wing devoted to their lodgings; the qnmuls were equally unoon- scious of. any ubmsual eveut, .t Tho Privco of Coude’s sleoping-chambor wag a small but richly-dacorated apartment in tho second story, with o yet smuller drossing- room leading from it. Madame de Feucheros oceupiod o suito of rooms in the story beloy, with her nioce, Madamo do Fonsssns. A staireaso conuected this suite with the Prince’s ohambor above, and also led from the entrance- hall of tho chateau, The Princo's apartmonts openad upon the largo contral corridor. On the dirat floor, alsa, wore most of the guest-rooms, On loaving his master, Lecomto, as usual, carofully locked his drossing-room, by which nccoss was to bo bad to his chamber from tho corridor, and carried the koy away with Lim, Promptly at8 o'clock on the morning of tho 27th tho valot appenred ab the Prince's door and kuocked, according to ordars, bo- foro unlocking it. No response was givon. Lecomto thought nothing of the ciroums stauce, but, thinking tho Drinco still asleop, ‘wont awny, to rofurb in » quaritor of an hour, accompatiod now by Conae's physician, Tho kuock wa repeated j thero was still the dead silouce, Tha two mon bocamo alarmed st thiy, and hurried around by the lurger stuircase to tho apartmont of ‘Sladamo do Iouchercs. Madamo do Fouchoros heurd their intelligence calily, and baid : *Twill go up at once, Whon Lo hears my voice lio will reply.” All in dishabille as sho was, glio hustoned up, and bogun ruppiug vig- orously at tho Princo's door. The hollow sound of tho echood knock—nothing moro, #* Open the door, Mousoiguour " she orled ; “jtis I, 8 phie ; opon the door ! 'bo nowse of the rn]:piug spoedily summonod tho guests and domestics, with terror-stricion faces, to tho Prince's apartmonts. Locomto uu- locked the dressing-room door, and procooded Lo Lhnt of thio chamber, to find it ecourely fastbnod, A sharp knocking hore only produced the samo result, No slightest sound oscapod from within, ‘Thon twvo of Lhio valots wore ordored by Madumo do Fouchoros, now dondly palo aud lesning upon tho Abba Driunt, hor sovretary, to foteh o Loavy bar, This was used with jmmediate offcct upon thio panals, which, g'whui \vn.i;, enabled Locomto and the doctor to ontor the ohnmbor, Lo the gronp without, thelr silouce, aftor ontering tho iuystorious room, wus strangoly protractod. Thoy found it, in fruth, vory vk, Tho shuttors of both the windows, which looked forth upon one of tho noblost domains of Frouce, Lot been tightly closed ; ouly the flickeriug glimmer of a noarly” exhuust- od candle, placed on gho henrth, and sorcened by a lurge fondor placed bofora it, rolioved Iu the lenst degreo tho obseurity of tho apartmont, It was by this dim light that the valet and tho physician discorned the Princa of Conde, who soomod to bo leaning agulust ouo of the windows with lis head bont, us if poering aud listening through the blindy, Lecomto hustoned to throw opon tho blind of tho othor window, wheu ghnstly spectucle met their oyos, ‘I’ enrly morning rays foil upon the figure of tho poor old man Liangiig trom the burs which hotd the shuttors, Arouud his neck wero twistod two handkorchiofs, tied wEotlmr: and these wero fantoned to the espagnolet(e, or bolt, which hield the burs togotlor, Tho horriblo pullor of bia faco told the story of doath, ho vonorublo head was suuk “upon tho broast ; hia logs scomed to bo drasn up, A8 if flxed by s final spnsm; tho withored bands ware olosed tight, whilo his tocs just touchod tho floor. _ Singularly enongh, tho handkorehiof did not onvelop the windpips, but pressed the forward rnl of the jaw, &mnlns thouce to the baok of the hoad, bolow tho crown, Thus the Princo could not. have hoon atrangled Lo denth, Tho oxclamations of Lecomio soon brought tho houseliold, who had boon awelting bronth- Iosgly in the ocorridor tho word of ths enigmn, poll-moll fnto the room. DMadamo do q’u\\- oherea cast & quick glanoo at tho Princo's suse onded form, and foll to the floor in o vio- Rant fIt. Tho sorvants began to moan, and to whispor to enol othor, ¢ Mouselgnour lsdend] Mousolgnour is dead!" Tha Prince's almonor eamo {n, ond examined the now almost frigid body, tadsme do Fouchoros wan lod awny to hor chambor, followod by hor nisco, The doath and supposcd suieida of the Prince do Condo hiad been dlscovored about half-past 8, By 10 tho Judgo of Inatruction of Poutoise, and Commiusary of Police of 8t. Leu, woro ho{dlng thoir Inquost in tho chambor of denth, and bes fore nioon tho evont wa kmown at the Palaco of the Tullorios In Parin, Prasently the Procutour- Genoral, {natructed by tho King to report tho faots to M. Dupont do I'Eure, Minister of Jue- tice, ronchod tho clinteau, and proconded to hoar shio evidouco. . Ilis roport, mado in the afternoon of that day, was pronounced by all Parls, whither evory de- tnil had by this timo sprosdl, ns & grossly erro- noous one. He doclared that the Prince had diod by slrangulation; that thors wore no aj Ennrmcua of violouco on his person; that ho nd boon bolted into hits chamber from the in- Bigu 3 oud that it was undoubtedly a case of eui- cido. 5 Uncomfortablo critics, not too friendly to the now dynnaty, at onco pointed out ciroumstances which dirootly oootradicted thoe conclusions of tho_offiial investigator; and moro than insinu- atod that, now that tho poor old Princo, after making o will bequoathitiz tho cstatos of tho Condes to tho young Duke d'Aumalo, waus well out of the way, it was abt once the intercst sud tho purpose of “exalted por- sonnges"—thero boing no doubt who was meant by this expresslon—to hush up and provent an inquiry into the tragedy. Dut ovon royalty—if it attompted this task—could not hush it up; and ou the investigntion which suc- ceeded, tho reasoning of those who rejocted the theory that tho Priuce had.committed suicide, with ‘tho ovidenco auppurt(nq it, was_fully brought out. Even boforo the Prince had beoh Inid in bis tomb, however, partics for and agninst suicide had beon formed. Madame do Toucheres vohomently declarad that the Princo bud destroyed himeolt ina fit of molancholy; tho Abe Tinant, Lot soorotacy, buustlod aboui tho houso, looked up the Drinco's pupors, declaring ' that . “ ovorything Loto bolongs to Madame de Teucheros,” aud tho plato was pub under tho guard of ono of ler undorlings, It was only at twilight on the day of bis doath that somae piccos of pa- fi“‘ partly burnod, wore pioked up by the replace by tho King's Beoretary. Among tho words thus proserved were, “The King—Vin- cenues—unfortunate son.” Whon tho bits of paper were put into the handa of the chiof Inw- on}:.-cr, he cxclaimod, “Here ig tho truth!” Mora boiug found, thore was enongh writing to show thut thoy wore purtions of alottor writton by tho Princo to Bladame de I'oucheres, in tho naturo of a lnst will, concluding with a touohing postacript to this purport: L ask that [ may 0 b_umd at Vioconypoes, near my unfortunato 8on." 3 Tho funeral ‘morvices took place at the chatoau of Chantilly on the dth of Septomber, o weok aftor tho tragedy; Conde’s beart was doposited i tho tomb of "his ancesters, being borue thither in a silver-gilt caskot., The Abbe Tolier delivered tho funeral discourse, and atartled the mourning multitudo who gath- ered around the bier by declaring: ¢ The Princo is innocent of his death m the sight of God." Anotlier and moro splondid funeral onsued at tho royal abboy of St. Donis, the burial placo of tho Kings of France, The body was receivod at tho portals by thoabley prioata and canonss Bishops cuantod high mass ; and it was not un- obsorved that the Dukesof Orleans sud Newours, tho two clder sous of Louis Philippo, wore pres- eut on the oceasion. Dlennwhilo, Mudame do Iroucheres, fearing tho indignation of the people of 8t, Lou, hurried o) from the chatenu with ber nicce, aud, sug. iciously enough, tool up her residonce at tha f’nluiu Bourbon, on the left bank of the Seive, Bho asppears to have passod o period of fright aud torture ; her sccrotary was constrained to sleep in tho library adjoining hor chamber, and Madame de Feassnns on a couch at her bedsida, The opunin(l' of tho Prince's will, mnl(iu&' tho Dulko d'Anmale his residuary logates, nud be- Qqueanthing Madame do Foucheres proporty worth 10,000,000 francs, was followed by tho inmedinte rosistance of tho hoirs of the Louso of Conde, the Princos of Rolinu. Thoy At once brought & suit in the Couxt of Promiore Iustauco as liiry- at-law, to dispute tho validity of the will, and to recover the property which they considored as theirs by inheritanco, 'They ongaged eminent counsel, and tho issue in the suit soon widoued from tho question of tho will to that of the mode of the Princa’s death. On the side of d’Aumale and Toucheres It was pointod out that the Princo's chambor-door bind been found bolted on the insido; thet ho had for somotimo boen sub- jeot to fits’ of dosporate melancholy; that tho doctor, on entoring the room, bad overturned a chair 8o placod that the Prince might haved used it in hanging bimsclf; that the fragments of the burnt letter indicated suicidal iutent; the signiti- cant mannor in which o bade adiou, not only to the guoats, but to the sorvants, on the night pro- ceding hisdeath; that thore was an absence of any murks of violence whatover ou the body ; thet it was iwpracticabls for any assnesin to rench his chamber without dotection ; and that no sound of the least altercation or struggle had been beard throughout the night. Ou tho sille of the Rolinus, per contra, M. Hennoquin poiuted out with groat force that nothing was more easy than to bolt & door on tho iuside from the outsido; st tho posilion of tho handioichiefs proved that the Priuce could not iave been strangled at all ; that the Prince's foot touched thoe ground, #0 that bo could not possibly have hanged him- self, or ovon been hanged by others where ho was found, whilo lving ; thut Lis epirits had ro- covered their cheerfuluess, aud that hohad been oven hilarious the night bofore his death ; tha, uftor reaching his cliamber, Lo bad pursued bis ordinary habits on retiring ; hia watch had beon wound up as usual, and carefully placed. in ils fob ; his slippers wore placed af the fuot of tho bed. Tut there were signs in the bed of somo unusual movements; aud it appenred thut the Princo had blown out the two wax-candles, thus, if the parlisans of sni- cido woro right, doliborately putting himeclf in the dork bofore committing the deud. lnfer- euces wore addod to thoso arguments by the domonstration that a'private staircase led from Dadsme do Foucheres' apartmouts to those of Gondo ; and tho prosenco of motiva on the part of this woman to bring about the Prince's doath waus significantly hinted, But tho Rolaus, howover just thelr claim, were contending against s too formidable powor. They were attompting to deprive the young son of an avaricious King of an_immonso fortune, The result was that their euit was donled them, the court confirmed the validity of tuo will, and DWAumele and Madame do Fouchores came iuto their inleritance. Of Madame de Foucheres it noed only be enid $hat, having sccured hor fortunse, sho took up Ler rosidonce in Paris, where slio appenred ol Louis Philippe's Gourt, gambled on the Bourse, gave gorgeous supporg, aud lived a reckloss, dis- gipated lifo, D'Aumale grow ap to tako nn ho- roiv part in tho Algerine wars ; to resido, during o long oxilo, in London, aud finally to roturn to Lis splondid estate of Clmutilly aftor the fall of Napoloon IIIL and the rostoration of the Orloans proportics to tholr owners, A yoar ago the wed- ding of tho daughter of the Diko do Nemours, D'Aumalo’s oldest brother, took placo in tho Joug-deserted chatean of the lnst of the Condes; and the #:nmd old place, ovor which hung tho rloom of a dark tragedy, put on n gnla aspoot ouice moro, as it used to do in tho brilliant days of Condo {ho Groat aud Louls tho Magoificent, —_—— WHERE MY LOVE IS AT REST. 'On & green hilleide, whero drooping ofd treca Dond down to this earth with thelr burden of Teaves, And the Lreath of zophyrs lms faint molodic, Liko whispers of hopo to o Leart 1§ deculven's Wiioro wild roscs bloom i tho calm Bumimer-ldys, "Their hearts (o tho sun, liko tho blusl of tho 1sid Wi ior over L aloof doratfon, beisuys,— Ol | tiro fs tho spot whore my Aunto {s fad. On a greon hillside, whero ths firat gt of morn Honda ita bright tatal kiss 10 tle valleys below ; ‘Whora Howrota lio over, snd dow:drops arv boruy Fond fruita of tholoves tho gods do bestow ; Whiero thio sunsot at eve, ita orimson huen glosming, Onsts & mantlo of gold'on 1ts pluclod orest, And ita laat rayu conio softly and. touderly kaming,— Ol 1 thorw ia the upot whvro my love u bt rost, Ouivado, JANES LavALLIN, = e e Unusunl Morbid Developmoent, Lrom the Maysnlis (Mo,) Keporter, A child of Dr, Earnest Albrocht who livesfour or five milos southonst of town, died last weok, and @ post-mortom oxamination was held upon the bod{, whish rosulted in sowa remarluble discoverlos, J'le paronts of tha ohild aro Gor- wan ; thoohild 1teolf was komo 2 oi 3 years old, At its bivth, and for somo tine nftorward, nothe ing unnatural was observod, In courso of time, however, tho oyos appoared to be 1pmtmdhm' from _thoir sockots; this gradually ju- ereased, until losw * of might ensued, At Inst the humors of tho oyes ware ap- gorbod, and tho eyes themselvos sloughed off. Moanwhile n morbid growth back of the eye- balls was dlacovered ‘soon after the unnatural protrusion roferrgd to, This growth continuod until it bad tho appesrance of flold-ginssos on £ho oyos, profectig Lo a distanco o two inchies. It hiad o' mottled appenranco, and the outside mombrane was tough, ‘I'lis noso had been nearly absorbod ; two orilices Lho sizo of & knitting- neodlo occupied the placo of nostrils, Tho head lind grown to bo protornaturally large; tho fore- hiead waa vory broad and projecting. On nroulng tho sknll tho ‘brain in the front part, called the corebrum, was found to be & Boft mass, aboul tho consistonco of thin pasto; the back braln waus, howovor, hoalthy, About a pint of lquid wad found in tho skull, Tho growth which pro- Joctod from the oyo aoolots, oxcopt the outside mombran, was of the samo consistenco of tho front braln. On tho skull-bono of the left sido of the head, a Iargo dark cancorous mass was also found.” Thoskull 1tsel! was verythin, Tho wonder {s that lifo was prolonqml with the braln in suoh & condition. 'Cho only oxplanation is that the bnok part ol the Dbraio, from which the norves aro iven off, was in = hoalthy conditlon; 7 it is portion of tho brain hnd aoftonad, death would have resulted immediatoly, It was sov- cral montha from the time tho growth bohind the oyos was discovered till death camo to the roliof of the little sufforar. The fzont brain wrs uttorly destroyed ; it Lind cessed to bs brain at all, and yot life continued—n fact which goon ta sliow that that part of the brain 18 not abso- lutely essoutial to lifo; but tho process of softe oning conld proceed in tho baok part of the brain ouly a short timo {ill death would ensue, :’hlia boing, so to epeak, the nerve centre of tha ody. . Tho post-mortem was held by Drs. MeKinnon and Downing, TO YOURSELF. 1love you, Let Fato do her worat! T atand Horo i full daylight, with uplified hand, Aud vow Ly my swest mother, by the fuce God took ero sln Lind dimmed’ 18 baby-grace, By ev'ry Lopo o which the hours give Lreath, That I am yours slone—in lifo or death, ‘Time's meroy lots my faco scom somowlint falr, And girlliood's suneiifno lingers on iy Liir 3 ut, yoars ngo, iy heart's bright youth and trust ‘urncd, liko its idals, into worthless dust; Hluco then I've watched the hopeloss years drift ‘Without one thought—without ono passing sighe Xor lovo or friendslip, Al too well I know That prescut Joy but brosds some future woe, Yet, whien your hand clusped miine, in that same hous 3y alub'ring heart arousod iteelf’ in powoe § Aok to learn that lifo could nover moro ‘Wear tho same icy calmness as before, . 8ns como and go; moons wnx and wane; bat yet Tho glory of oo dhy can never sot, Whate'er tho fature tiold, it caunot ba Forgetfulucss shiall como to you or mo, Tuo heav'ng ehall pass away. Tho stars shall fall, Dut T slall Jovo you—Iovs you through it ull, * + °Y Bliaax KITraso, —_— . HUMOR, Landios, this wintor, will woar the same thing( thoy wore last yonr—if thoy can't buy othera, L. 0. A. aro tho inilinls of n young lady in Now Hompshire, Beveral youngmén arg anx: ious to join hor, —Spicor says tho difforenco botween tho IToosa Taunel aud an oysior is, that one is wholosomd sud the othor some holo, —A M(ch[F&\n mauulacturer has 18,000 broom. handlos roady for shipment. This ought to sol husbands thinking about coming home carly. —Tho young man who boustod he could mar. ry any.girl he pleased, found that ke couldn'( pl)man any. ‘—* A new instrumont,” Bays tho Parls Figaro, **suggestod by thelifo of M. Thiors, hes boen in: vonted by an'ingonious savant. It varios witk overy chingo of the wind, and iscalled the Thiermometre,” —An Tows matron oosuplos tho position of mother-ju-law to sixteen nbject men;” And peo- plo talk of slavery away off iz Cubal—New Yorl World. —A disconsolate husband, describing bis run. awny wifo, describes her as follows: * Blug oyes, red balr, prominent nose, dressed in yellow ds, bronze boots, and n blao sash.” —A young lndy says that & gontloman ought never to feol disconraged when the * momontous uestion " is negatived by the objoct of hig g)mllxcc, *¢ for in lifo, a3 in ‘grammar, we always o 0 boforo wa conjugate.” — some of our druggists,” !T an Ilinois paper, * would fill a bottio with bod-bug poison, plnco it in the back room and [abel it * Old Ryo, ~thoro would be 5o many inquests in the next twenty-four hours that all the papers would have to issno supplomonts," —Whon Boss T'wecd's occupation was- asked b‘y tho Penitentiary oflicils he corractly roplied, * statosman ;" for isn't ho {he. Stato's man for tho noxt telvo years,—Memphia Avalanche, —Politeness pitys. A Now Yorl straet-car con- duotor, who recontly snid Yos, Madam,” to a lady, hag beon prasented with a new overcoat, and thoy talk of o statue to him. —Stafistics show that in the monutainous ro- glonu of Switzorland and Savoy, donf mutes are more numerous than in flat countries, This is, perhaps, becauso Nature makes the mountain's poak for them, —Intending to bo pathetio, the editor of the McCounellsvillo Herald wroto of *a beautiful girl strandod in a galo,” but tho flendish com- positor sob it up *a benutiful girl straddled on & rail." The editor's pathos was suppresued, and 80 was the compositor, —A. Now Orloana juryman wes aslied by the Judge it be ever rond the papors, o roplied : “ Yos, yer Honor ; but if youw'll lot me 80 thig timo I'll never do 80 any moro.” —Tho Journal says a Sioux knockod his wifo down with a billet of wood Thuraday night. Ho is a great, strapping fel- low, while sheis asmall woman; but his ex- cuso for striking hor with the billob was that he in too much of & gontleman to strile a woman with his fist. ¥ —A gontloman built a wing to his houss, con. sisting of a collar, a library on the ground floor, anda bodroom abovo, o asked tho opinion of a friond about it, who roplied: * My dear fol- low, I nm sorry to rce you have lost your sonses.” ‘How ?" exclaimed the other. *Why, a bon vivant and n literacy man, a8 you: are, to ;«ar}( over your wino and to sleep over youws ooks,” —A Deaver County, Pennaylvania, man threats ens to bring suil ngaivst a_young farmor whe porsiets in sitting up with his daughter Sunday nights till 4 o'clock in the momning. The stery Iml‘enb claims, firstly, that the following day be ng wash-duy, hia mal &'t of no account; seo ondly, that if thoy could only use two chairs the one they do use wouldn't cost &0 much fo Topaira, —The Review soys: “A Pooria lattor-can rier, aftor walking nine miles and dolivoring the same letter to 137 men, nouo of whom would ro. ceive it, sat down on & flre-plug and wopt bo. oause Pocaliontns wae such o fool as to catch tho old man's war club,” —“If T put my monoy in the snvinga bank, when can I’fob it out again ? "asked oneaf the newly-nrrived. “Ochl™ snid his !rlandl “sure an’if you put it in {o-day you can draw i out to-morrow by giving sixty days’ notice.” —" What's tho mattor thiero, Alico? Don't your shoes fit?” ¢ No, papa, they don't it me 86 nl),"” roplicd tho littlo oue, ‘¢ Why, they don't even squeak whon I go out fora walk,” —Qonvereation in the horse-car: Firat Young Lady—Fathor eays that wo girls must Lo cca- nomical, for tho panic has struck him, Whnat does your fathor say? Socond Young Lady—Oh, ho don’t sny much ¢ you know pa is 8o slow thal 1 don't believo Lo'll oar the pauiois in town till it has mout gono away. s —A wife wanted hor husband to sympnthize with hor in a feminino quarrol, but Lo rofused, enying, “ I've lived long enoughto learn that ona woman i# just as good as another, if not betior,” # And I," retorted tha exasporated wife, ‘¢ have lived long enough to loarn that one man is just 08 bad ag another, if not worse 1" - DANBENIIES, ‘What are you goiug to give your wife's mothey for Christmas? —Now that skating hina st in_care shonld ba talion to avoid the air-holes. It i surprising thio amount of moisture an air-holo contaius, —1In viow of our war progpocts, it is painful to witness tho forocions nspoct of thoso pooplo wha have passed (Lojr 45th year, —A boy living on tiio Sugar Hollow road ate twonty-ono buckwheat calios one day last weol, and g0 distwrbod his stomacl as to causo hii doath in threo dnya after. Tho Inst words he uttored were of mouest triumph, Me gaid; ] ulunfi ‘om 1" —A Troy editor took his wife to Now York Telday, Tho conductor, when Lo came along, recoguizod our ‘T'roy brotlior as entitled Lo froe passage, but, not knowing the Indy, whisporod to him, I8 this lady a fricad of yours " No, n|)i" wud the 'roy editor, in hasto; *she is my wife, ~It wag about 2 o'clock Friday morning that Mra, Ionnosuoy, of Nolson stroat, thinking sho Loard o noiso in the kitohon, erept out of bed and to that room to sco if it \waa 1ot Ilennessoy, who hai beon oxpeotod in for sovoral lours, On reaching the kitchon slio found bLer lord and master witting on tho floor, with his now sillc hint in botween his knoes, and [u the bat sov oral dried herrings and’ about two quarts of City gentloman wator, Mr, llouncssey wns oyeing tho mixturo with profound gratilication, ““John lonnes. garouniod tho Imli'. ** what aro you doing #* g lmlulrod Mr, {lonnossoy, with o look o iso, *Why, Matilds, I'm (hic l.) starting an (hicl) aquarium for von Criuhmue ¥