The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-10 00:00:00

DEATH OF THE DUKE DE HORNY.

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The death is announoed of one of the best-known
of the school of ma who ism boa limeght into premi-
ums in European affairs by the revival of the Napless
drawly. Devobsd to the perm and the interests of like
Emperor, the Duke ds Korey, whom death this morals( is
annomord to as by telegram, we. cm of the few wham the
coalidmos of Louis Napoleon summed to prepare the coup
and from that time to the pessat his Dam his
boss weaselly heard of both in politics sod iu mess/say
adsrprissa It is boom that by his misetakimp in sea-
sezios with railways, osnals, Amish sad [mks Walk
essielis of reedit, sad other osuumelal enterprises, he
mama a gigantic fortress, while in political lib he
embed the high onlos se President of the Legislative As-

sembly.
The deceased duke, who was born ea the 23rd Oeir
hat, 1811, was regarded as the ball brother of the
prevent Emperor of the French, being the reputed sea
of Queen Hortense and the Oman tie Fishes& He
amused the name of the Count de Monty, • Fresh cell*.
men resident at the Isle of Finns tlfanrities), who is
said to have received 800,000 fr. for adopting him
as a se. Be was educated nodes the mire of his
supposed grandmother, the aseamplished Madame de
Plehanit, also known as Maass M Beess. fees
her second marriage with a Porters* nolisms d Abet
same, and placed in the institutive Menin, wilsw Mem
:ley was among his clannstss. His prolhamey la all*
was remarkable, and he wee early introduced isle
when he was much noticed cm seranat of hie digs. eel
Senn manses It is related Sat cm one semis when
he came to visit Talleyread, with wise' he was
a favourite, that diplomatist said to a high personae*
who ears immediately after roes Horny had withdraws
" Did you meet a little fellow holding the lend ef IL de
Mahon?* " Yes, prince, on the animas ° wan Wee
re*. " said Yalleyrand, " remark what I gay,
that child will one day be minims." He &needed es el
the principal military academies of Paris during two yevu
end left it in 1832, with the rank of mirlkar
tenant, after which he was stationed la some I
time at Fontainebleau, when be is mid to have
tamed his attention to the study of Solaphysies
and theology, although he does not semi to have long as
tinned to cultivate those branches of knowledge. Housed
for some in Algeria, where he was wounded, and was deer
rated with the order of the legion of honour for bevies saved
thelifeof OseralTriseL Queen Hortense, on her death is
1837, bequeathed to him an annuity ol 40,000 fr. He made lie
&bur in the world of industry es a manufacturer of best-
root sugar is 1838. Punkas to the revolution of 1848 be
was for nearly eight years • member of the Chamber of
Domain, and 111849 be was sleeted to the Legislative
Assembly; but up to that time his influence in politkoil
life presided form his owlish:sal ability in Sens,
finscial tied isdastrial a
vse 'abject& and chiefly from bis
n as astile, skilful, and freqaestly succemtal
tenon
'peculator. The advent of Louis Nepali's to the presidency
brought him into prominence. At the critical moment ei ski
coup edict be is said to have dia./eyed mach audacity and
C 0011111•1. He poised the evening of the tat of December at
the Opera Conks, sad ea a lady asking him in his box
what he what do if they swipe away the Assembly, he rr
plied, " 1 would try to put myself by the ride of the
broom." The sue day ha gave Skate to his
friends, admitting them to the siting' of the
legislature the next day. It is said, however, that
in eulogising IL de Therigay, whom he was abet to
replace in a few hours, he allowed the spreads Is
escape him, " Ile was a good senister." Ice fact X. tiel
Horny took in hand the portfolio of the interior ea the'
morning of the god of December, and as se ell
the sew minimises signed the first proolainalies.
He countersigned all acts sad decrees which MIS
more especially seder the jurisdiction of his ministry.
When more tbaa 200 representatives meet ander the pre-
sicken al M. &sit d'Asy, to protest and organise lept
reeietsece, IL be Horny took the remissibility el the
order which was gives to dispels* or finest that importent
tactics of the Mafiosi Assefaly. He said at the tiros
that he had wished to move the representatives " from their
own oceuep." Amongst the eirsiers which signalised his
short nay in the ministry was coo of the 4th of December,
directing the profits to make of all shin funatiosmia
Mhos's in writing to the great measure which the govern-
ment were accomplishing. Amens of the 13th sanonneed
to the extraordinary oonunimiseers the sod of their mimics
and oa the 19th of Janwary,lBs3, a third siranlar was issued
explaining the now electoral mechanism and the designs of
the government as to the application of universal mirage-
Four days later be lett the ministry, with Messrs.
Fould, Mims and Ember, ma asonot of the wefts
tion of the property of the Orleans family. flubs-
quietly he became a sesenber of the Legislative Body,
and efface 1854 he Se officiated mita president. He attended
the coronation of the Emperor Alexander the Sees&
as the representative of the Fresh government, and was
treated in Ramie not merely as the ambassador, but as the
private fried of the Fresh Emperor. In Bt. Peters-
burg be obtained the hand of the young sod wealthy
Princess Troubstakoi, who had been brought up at
the isstitution of the imperial maids of hooour, and
whom the Esse" Dowager wished to play smog the
ladies of the Mein Espies" ; the latter, however, de-
clined her services on account of her 'nine too beautiful,
but sent her as a wedding percent her portrait set with
diamond& The marriage was celebrated Feb. 19, 1857,
at St. Petersburg, according to Greek and catholic rites;
sad the count is said to have promoted his bride
with &snoods to the value of 2,000,000 francs.
He purchased abo, in the name of hie wife,
a seigneurial estate of the Bevlasky family, about
twelve miles from fit. Petersburg. The present Ilk
Robert Peel, in use of his humorous speeches to bin cos-
nasals, Amiorible the late duke as "a sink and span man
el moaiderable aplomb, and who by the way is one of the
greatest speculators in the world."

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Otto, ex-King of Greece, who has taken up his
rasidenoe permanently in Bamberg, is at present, It is said,
devoting his leisure to the compilation of a modern °rook
and Gomm Lexicon.
It is stated at Brussels that,.the King of the Bel-
gians, who has entirely recovered from his meant isdispnel.
tics, will immediately proceed to Berlin, and thence pro-
bably to Please. It is expected that 'his Majesty will be
absent from Brumels for at but a fortnight
The Jerome Napoleon, Prince Napoleon's yacht,
Lat prosiest at Havre quite ready for sea. It is said that
the prince is about to propped to Almelo, in Conks,
touching at liAtalillOa. He will take with him roar
broom state's, repeasentiog Joseph, Luoiea, Louis, and
Jerome Bonaparte, the four brothers of the First Napo-,
bro. A fifth brans status is to be embarked at Mar-
sala for the rams destination. This. statues ars 7 feet
high. The object of Prime Napoleon's voyage Is to
inaugurate thane statues is the town of Marcia
A special correspondence of the Sport states that
pew has sever been so abundant in Egypt as this mason.
During the whole of January looks of wild docks and gesso
literally emend the banks of the Nile. Prices Halim's
steamer plied regularly between (Utah and Mullah,
bringing beak "very evening the day's bag, which never
cooteimpd lees than 300 or 350 of these birds.
THITIVAL 07 PHI SONS OP THZ CLZEGT.—HI/
Royal Highness the Prima of Wales has consented to bead
the list of stewards of the 211th amtiverrory festival of the
Boas of the Clergy, and to Loaner it by his preemie au
the day of its eelehrthion,, Wednesday, the 17th of May.
Divine aerobe will be performed wader the acne of et,
Eases Cathedral, when the Very Rev. the Casa of Ely wile
preach, mad anthems will be sting by the wilted choirs of ha
Majearay's Chapel Royal, St. l'anna. Westminster Abbey,
The municipal council of Vienna has deco._ sad sa. Georges chard, igiadm. Armihised am-
upon the ovation of a mew town-ltall. Architects, but only ber. of 7nran„as, oamapgra gas. sad t upteted
Austrians, are invited to seed la designs oe or Warsaw* that Mr. Goal, t►e •esospl argsaist at 81. Penh, win
31, 1866. The bat pima is to be rewarded with a prize of a as, wawa for the mown. The dinner will
3,000 Series; the three next beet with 2,000 labs ; and fells• tke one day. 1. the bell of the xembept Tay.
the four next in order of merit, with 1.000 florins each. kw oampisy. mid yin, by deo* be Too, DummulT
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The monument of Helancthon it to be inaugurated maga in honor of thc royal steward, and le canon gi
on the 25th of Jo-se next, the anniversary of the presents, one of our oldest and mod affeative ebarftlsa
iron of the Augsburg Oonfeesioa. The monument will stead The number of patients relieved at the Hospital
oo the marketplace of Wittenberg, alongside that of for Diereses of the Heart, 67, Wrogaretwtrest,
Luther. gum wow 100 Marie( the week.