The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-14 00:00:00

Algeria pacified after eighteen years' war; his immense
private fortune • his eleven or twelve palaces unequalled
for situation and magnificence, on all of which he had
recently spent immense sums of money ; his splendid
army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest dis-
cipline and equipinent ; a Minister of unequalled energy
and genius, who had found out at last the secret of
Prance ; a metropolis fortified and armed to the teeth
against all the world ; the favourable advances recently
made by those powers who had previously looked down
on the royal parvenu ; the well-balanced state of his
'foreign' relations, and 'the firmly-grasped reins of the
political car—all these gifts of fortune, and more, if we
had time to go on with the list, were heaped upon one
man, in such profusion as really to pall the imagination.
What, crowned it all was, that Louis Philippe was allowed
the entire credit of his success. It was all the work of
his own hands. He might stand like the ancient king on
the walls and towers which he had drawn round his city,
and contemplate the perfect work of beauty and policy
which himself had made. • The balance of Europe, the
causes of peoples and kings, the issues of peace and war,
were in his hands. If there was an amari aliquid in this
garden of roses and delights, twenty impregnable forts
and a hundred thousand armed men were no insignificant
watch upon a few disorderly subjects. Solon himself
himself would hardly have ventured to preach upon his
envious text, ante obitum nemo, to a safe a man."
Nought strong as the imagination to draw the reverse.
It must be familiar to the minds of all. -

THE ORLEANS FAMILY.
The Globe states that, on quitting the Tuileries, the ex-
King and Queen of the French left behind them one of
their grandchildren, to whom . they were devotedly at-
tached, in the charge of some of the ladies in waiting.
This child was nursed under the care of the aged queen,
and when her majesty arrived in England, she inquired
most anxiously whether any tidings of her little favourite
and the ladies had been received. It was rather remark-
able, and was highly gratifying to the queen, that Mr.
Laurence and Lady Jane Peel (who were the first of our
nobility, in company with Lady Henley, to visit the royal
exiles on their landing at Newhaven), should be able to
relieve.this anxiety. Lady Jane Peel had received letters
to the effect that the royal child and the ladies had been
permitted to remain in the Tuileries till after the revolu-
tion, when they were conveyed to a place of safety. It is
scarcely necessary to add that her majesty expressed her-
self highly delighted with the intelligence. Before they
separated, the ex-queen informed Lady Jane Peel that she
felt happy on arriving safely in England. She did not care
how humble life she led there, for it would be bliss to the
anxious moments which she had latterly passed in France,
and she hoped that now she should end her days in peace.
Her majesty seemed sensibly affected by her situation.
Another paper gives the following particulars respect-
ing the Duchess de Montpensier :—" She saffered more
than any of the royal family. Having been left behind in
the Tuileries she took refuge in a wood closet, and put on
a servant's clothes and apron, whilst the mob got posses-
sion of her blue bonnet, and bore it about on a pike. In
disguise the duchess succeeded in reaching, on foot,
through the invaders of the château, the embassy of Por-
tugal, from whence she was conducted to England by
Colonel Thierry. It has proved a sorry match for the In-
fanta—she has lost for ever the two millions of francs wrung
from the Spanish government at the time of the marriages.
The last of this money was paid away but a week ago for
the purchase of a forest near Poitiers, now under seques-
tration. So much for the fate of one of the royal
heroines of the Spanish marriages."