The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING.
THE most remarkable event of the week, so far as
foreign matters are concerned, has been the accomplish-
ment of the long,-talked-of " fusion" of the elder and
younger branches of the House of Bourbon. Numerous
attempts have been made since the revolution of February,
by the Principal leaders both of the Legitimist and the
°rleallist Parties, to bring about a reconciliation of the
feud between the two branches which, as it originated in
the acceptance of the crown by Louis PHILIPPE to the
Prejudice of the direct succession, should, as appears but
natural, have been permitted to expire on the downfal of
the ORLEANS family, and the consequent extinction of
whatever rights might have been supposed to accrue by
his long tenure of the throne. $ The failure of these
attempts.has generally been attributed to the persistence
of the Duchess of ORLEANS in clinging to the rights which
she imagined her son, the young COUNT DE PARIS, to
Possess in virtue of the abdication made in his favour
by his frandfather, at the moment the mob of Paris was
about to burst into the Tuileries. Forgetting that the
same "will of the people" which called Loris PHILIPPE
to the throne, was-equally efficacious even after a lapse of
eighteen years to remove him from it, she appealed to the
principle of "hereditary right" as constituting her son
de jure King of the French, and refused to listen to any
proposition subordinating his claims to those of him who,
as lineal heir of Louis XIV. and direct successor of
CHARLES X., calls himself " HENRY V., King of France."
How the scruples of the Duchess have been overcome,—
whether she has at last recognised the superior " right
divine" of the elder branch, or whether, convinced of the
utter hopelessness of France ever again calling on the
House of ORLEANS to rule over her, she has consented to
an abandonment of the claims of her son, as the only
chance of her family revisiting their country,—has not
yet appeared from the statements of the affair that have
been given to the public. For my own part, I believe
that the firmness of the Duchess has only yielded to the
repeated solicitations of the rest of the ORLEANS family
and their leading partisans, who have represented that,
to maintain the rivalry between the Bourbon branches,
and thereby dividing the monarchical interest iu France,
could, under the present position of affairs in that coun-
try, lead only to the exclusion of both. Mutual opposition,
it was represented, neutralized the efforts of both parties,
while union must give them double strength. The very
. principle of hereditary succession involved by the Duchess
spoke still louder in favour of the Count de CHA.MBORD.
The younger branch, by gracefully waiving its preten-
sions in favour of the strong,er claims of the elder, would,
in reality, make no sacrifice, but would merely return to
that position on the right hand of the Throne which it
had formerly occupied, and it would hold the same exalted
rank, inferior only to the sovereign, which was its due.
These, I undersrand, were the principal arguments used,
and the result shows with what success. Under existing
circumstances, the chief interest of this event lies in the
fact of its making a breach which, for the credit of one
Party and the interest of the other, should never have oc-
curred. Far wiser would it have been in Louis PHI-
LIPPE to have been content with the glory of placing the
crown on his young cousin's head, instead of filching it for
himself; but in that, as in many subsequent cases, the
tortuous policy in which he delighted was successful but
for a while, the ultimate result being invariably disgrace
and defeat.
Some of the metropolitan daily newspapers, more
especially the organ of the Peelites, and the advocate of
every thing said or done by the ABERDEEN section of our
mongrel Ministry, have been endeavouring to impress the
English mind with the conviction that Cardinal Wiseme.x,
who would call himself " Lord Archbishop of Westmin-
ster," but for the existence of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act,
has transferred his services from London to Rome, and
that for the rest of his days, in this fast fleeting world, he
is to remain attached to the court of his benevolent ponti-
fical master, Pio NONO, ill a distinguished position. Pri-
vate letters from the eternal city convey such intelligence re-
specting the Cardinal as can leave no doubt whatever about
his return to the capital of England, and the resumption in
full force of his archiepiscopal duties, whatever they may
be. About the 23d of last month, " His Eminence"—so
they invariably call him in the profoundly Popish neigh-
bourhood of St. George's, Southwark, where a gorgeous-
Roman
wn upeoantit!teuall-miiral looks almost e ce
ontemptuously
down
buildings watered by Father Thames, near Westminster-
bridge—reached Rome, and became a sojourner at the great
convent of the Theatines, St. Andrea Della Valle. Almost
immediately after his arrival he was waited upon by the
POPE and theprincipal English Roman Catholics, who hailed
his presence among them with, it is reported, uncommon
pleasure. In fact, he became the lion of the day, and bid
fair to eclipse, for the moment at least, that blue-fire
• brilliancy which the Pontiff" throws about wherever he
- goes. There was feasting and jollification of every kind
for the next three or four days, and on All-Hallows Eve
the Cardinal received an invite to crack his nuts and suck
his sugar-plums with Pio NoNo. Among others who
Partook of the POPE'S hospitality on the same occasion
was the Grand Duke of TUSCANY, and the entertainment
commenced at 2 o'clock, p.m.,in the Casino of the Vatican-
gardens. The party was a pleasant one, being a good deal
enlivened by the jokes and witticisms of Cardinals ANTO-
NELLI, FORNARI (distinguished among ecclesiastical diplo-
matists whilst filling the high post of the Nunciature at
Paris), PATROSI (the Cardinal-Vicar of Rome), the French
Ambassador, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires (provisionally
acting Princes Count ESTERHAZY), the Tuscan Minister,
and the BORGHESE and ORSINI, rather a remark-
able galaxy of the elite, and affording by their presence
practical exemplification of the truth of that good old
song, "The Pope he leads a happy life." Dr. WISEMAN
was in right good spirits—related a variety of anecdotes
connected with the doings of the POPE'S " Parliamentary
Brass-band" in their opposition to the passing of the Eccle-
siastical Titles' Act through the House of Commons—
gave some rack imitations of WILLIAM KEOGH'S (the
Present Solicitor-General for Ireland) crack oratory in
defence of "Mother Church"—described FREDERICK
LUCAS, that self-dubbed champion of Popery, as a political
agitator of the Oily Gammon school,—and, I dare
saY, in compliment to the French Ambassador,
wound up by declaring his belief that Loris NAPO-
LEON wag " one of the greatest columns to the Catholic
Church." In a day or two after this fete, Cardinal
Winer AN met with an accident, vihich severely hurt his
right hand, and prevented him from assisting in the
morning at some religious ceremony at the church of
St. Carlo. In the afternoon, however, he formed one of
the body guard of forty Cardinals who attended the POPE
at St. Peter's, to celebrate "The beatification of the
venerable ANDREA BOBOLA " and the accounts received.
in this country assert, that "the English Cardinal, in his
robes of state, was conspicuous among his princely col-
leagues, by the dignity of his bearhig and his stature?'
When the rumour of the Cardinal's accident got wind, the
Convent of the Theatines was besieged by hosts of anxious
inquirers, and, for peace and quiet sake, he got away one
beautiful moonlight night to the villa of the English
College at Monte Porno, where he dedicated himself to
writing on topics of considerable importance, and enjoyed
that seclusion which the continued applications for ad-
mission to his presence, and the demands upon his atten-
tion in various ways, whilst at the Theatine Convent,
rendered impossible. In Roman Catholic circles, Cardinal
WISEMAN'S return to England is expected by the first
week in January. His house in Golden-square, rather
a respectable apostolic place of shelter, is being put in
order by one of the first decorators in London, and I
understand that a series of soirees during the approaching
season will form a distinguished feature of the Cardinal's
hospitality to those of his own way of thinking. " A
night with ISIENDELssuox" has been attracting enormous
crowds to the Wednesday concerts at Exeter-hall, and
giving great satisfaction. "A night with WISEMAN,"
over one of his soiree cups of coffee, seltzer-water, and
Chablis, on the north-eastern side of Regent-street, may
not prove unacceptable to the readers of my corres-
pondence in the Liverpool Standar4; and when the time
arrives, they shall have it con amore, for though not
within the pale of Dr. W.'s " true church," I believe I
can secure the entree to his salons.
It appears that negociations—diplomacy—will never
have done with regard to the Turkish question. A partial
victory and retreat by the Ottoman has opened new corn-
munications, and our QUEEN'S messengers are again on
the qui vire. A Turcoman was also sent from the embassy
to the SULTAN with a note from our Cabinet on Tuesday,
the tenor of which, it is said, will open up the way to more
direct negociations. I give you the diplomatic phraseology.
On Saturday night, Lord PALMERSTON gave one of the
grandest banquets which ever characterised this unban-
- queting period of the year. It was opportune. Some weeks
Since I told you the cause of all these delays, negotiations,
or what you will. QUEEN VICTORIA won't have fighting.
NICHOLAS is Her MAJESTY'S old friend, and the SULTAN
her older ally ; and if we had not effete old men in the
Cabinet, and pragmatic Radical young men, the affair
would have been settled five months ago. Leagues of
tYPe—leaders, and what not—cannot inform you more,—if
so much !
There is not a more crotchetty creature in the world
than your English vocalist—male or female,—especially
if the party be considered an artist of eminence. This
arises, in some degree, from the scarcity of the genus,
snaking those who are of it insufferably vain and exor-
bitant in their demands. The whim and caprice of the
vocalist are proverbial. A capital English opera company
Was being brought together for Drury-lane, after the
trtomime season, or, it may be, during it. The pro-
m of the opera scheme —I mention no names—
"l to have entire occupancy of the house : so far
ee; "But will you keep it open six nights a week?"
tieet,7:(l,._th?, lessee. This was demurred to. The lessee
talce e Very well, gentlemen, if you wont, I. must ;
fee taken
for three nights a week, and keep it open
befe7:,-fe and I will give dramas on the other nights."
house ,Zber two : The singers wanted to have the
enoege":l4,! that other entertainment ; judging, rationally
,nt. if there were a full house for tragedy on
The een;Ztellt,here might not be a good one for Tuesday.
and I don't ftLe that the opera has gone for naught;
Lion of the ve that even the musically inclined por-
ees Rever
English opeialYe cares a rush about the failure ; for
among us.
larity Yet ripened into a genial popu-
mation would b. The chances of such a consum-
.. rendered more problematical during