The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

THE EMPRESS OF FRANCE.

TO TR EDITOR OP THE IMPRESS.

Slit,—The many erroneous genealogical statements
of the family of the Empress of France induce me to give
you the real one, which you may depend upon as correct.
Mr. Henry Grivignee, a native of Belgium, had four
daughters and one son. The eldest of the dauters, Dona
Minute, married a Dorman, Mr. Neumann, Polish consul
at this place ; the second, Doss Francisca, married Mr.
William Kirkpatrick, then American consul ; the third,
Dona Catalina, married M. Letups ; and the fourth, Dona
Dolores, a Mr. Power. Mr. William Kirkpatrick had three
daughters, of which the eldest, Dona Maria, married Don
Cipriano Palafox, then Count de Teba, grandee of Spain of
first class ; later, at the death of his elder brother, he be-
came Count del Montijo. The second daughter, Dona Car-
lota, married a cousin of hers, Mr. Thomas Kirkpatrick,
jun. ; and the third, Dona Enriqueta, married • son of
Count Cabarrua, whose sister was the distinguished Madame
Tallien. The Countess of Montijo (formerly Countess of
Teba) hu two daughters, of which the eldest is married to
the Duke of Alba and Berwick ; the second, Dona Eugenia,
is the Empress of France.

The leis Mr. Wtn. Kirkpatrick bad a brother, Mr.
Thomas Kirkpatrick, here, who was married to the daughter
of a German gentleman of the name of Plink ; the sister of
this Mrs. Kirkpatrick, Dona Dolores, married Lieut.-Col
Montgomery, late 18th Dragoons ; and the youngest, Dona
Ana, married Lieut.-Col. G. Thompson, R.E.
Mr. and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, jun., are both dead, and have
left three children—Charlotte, Alexander, and William.
Alexander has lately bet% appointed British vice-consul at
Garrucha. A brother of the above-mentioned Mr. Thomas
Kirkpatrick, jun., resides at Aden as 11.8.M.'s vice-consal.
Malaga, Feb., 1853. E. D.

ECCENTRIC TESTATORS.—There is hardly a pariah
that does not enjoy the fruits of testatory eccentricity. I
think I see Matthew Wall, who, in 1.595, wrote "I give and
bequeath," and appended to these words the following pro-
visions for the perpetuation of his name on the smallest pos-
sible terms:—To the sexton to make up the testator's grave
yearly, and to ring the bell, one shilling and tenpeoce: To
sweep the path from the testator's house to the church-gate
every year, one shilling: To the vicar of Stortford, to make
proclamation yearly, on Ascension and Michaelmas Day,
that the testator left his estate to a Matthew or William
Wall, as long as the world should endure, eightpenes
To the parish clerk at Ilalliegbury for the same, eight-
pence; and to the minister and churchwardens, to este the
testator's will carried out, five shillings. Matthew Wall
also gave twenty groats to twenty boys, and ten threepenees
to ten aged and infirm persons. The general intention of
Matthew in this document is a little too obvious : he bun-
gled
in his bargain for local immortality. Edward Strode,
who wrote " I give and bequeath" about one century after I
Wall, did not exhibit any remarkable advantage over the
little hero of Stortforil. Strode fixed upon Sheptcn Mallet, ;
is Somersetsbire, as the abode of his immortality, and
caught the happy idea of founding .dnishourin to be called
by his name. More—ke determined that the recipients of
his bounty should wear the budge of his charity upon them ;
that the letter E should "be cut large in blue cloth and
well sewed on the right sleeve, and the letter Son the left
sleeve, plain to be seen." Thus Strode contrived that four
poor old men of his parish should wear his livery and cony
the initials of his name about the country for ever. I can
picture Strode to myself also—a weak man anxious to make
a bargain for his soul and a salve for his vanity at the same
tine.—Dickees's Household Words.

PnorEssonsturs IY SCOTLAND.—Yesterday, a
bill, which id before the House of Commons, was printed,
to regulate the admission of protestors to the lay chsira in the
universities of *Scotland. Professors are not to be required
to subscribe to the Confes,ion of the Faith, bat to sign •
declaration that they will not exercise the function of their
office to the prejudice or the subversion of the church of
Scotland, as by law established.