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THE DUKE OF ORLEANS

The late Duke of Orleans was the eldest son of the King
of the French, and of her present Majesty the Queen of the
French, who is daughter of Ferdinand, King of the two
Sicilies. The deceased was a native of Palermo, having been
born in that city on the 2d of September, 1810. On the
restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of their
ancestors, the Orleans branch of that family immediately re-
turned to their native country, where the young prince, now
so unhappily removed from this life, commenced his'educa-
tion as a pupil of the public Lyceums in Paris ; for his
father, whose early life had been spent under the guidance of
Madame de Geniis, was resolved that his son should not be
brought up in what Dr. Johnson calls " ignorance of princely
education," and for the first time a French prince entered an
academic class, exposed himself to the fellowship of school.
boys, and contended with the sons of the nobility and gentry
of France in the rivalry proper to a place of public education.
He has, however, been less distinguished' in literature than
in arms, having served with considerable reputation in the
African war.

When the news of that revolution which placed his father
on a throne reached him, he was at Joigny with his regiment.
Of course he lost no time in attempting to join his relatives;
he was, however, detained by the mayor of Montrouge, but
was speedily liberated by an order from Lafayette, and he
then thought it expedient to return to his regiment, instead
of proceeding to .Neuilly, where his father then was. On

his return he-met the Duchess d'Angouhlwe, who expressed
a hope that he would support the cause of that portion of
the family to which she belonged. His characteristic reply
was, that under all circumstances be would do his duty, re-
gardless of consequences.
Louis Philippe 1., the King of the French, has now a
family of six children (exclusive of the late lamented Duke
of Orleans), four of whom are sons, viz., the Duke de Ne-
mours, the Prince de joinville, the Duke d'Aumale, and the
Duke de Montpensier. The present heir apparent to the
throne of France is the young Comte de Paris, the eldest
child of the late Duke of Orleans, who was born in August,
1838, and is consequently in his fourth year. His younger
brother, the infant Luke de Chartres, was born on the 9th
of November, 1840.

The late Duke of Orleans married, in June, 1837, the
Princess Helena of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin, by whom he
had the two sons above mentioned. He always entertained
a marked predilection for military employment, and a strong
love of military glory, and was understood to be much
beloved by the soldiers under his command, many of whom—
sturdy veterans of the Napoleon armies—shed tears as his
lifeless body was carried from the fatal spot.
It is curious to remark the hapless fate which has been
attendant upon so many of the youthful scions of royalty in
France.

In the first place, there was the unfortunate Dauphin, the
son of Louis XVI., who, after undergoing the most horrible
sufferings, perished in the prison of the Temple, at the age
of about eight years. Although, however, he never came to
the throne, the title of Louis the Seventeenth has been never,
theless assigned him.

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The next youthful heir to the Fren,,, crown was the Duke
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cated in 1814 and 1815. This, however, rone when he abdi-
cated
would never listen to, and the you, the conquerors of
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sequently compelled to retire with his imperial
rinlce was
Austria, where he lived for some years, undperntle mother to
of his maternal grandfather, the late Emperor protection Francis
He finally died of pulmonary consumption, in the I.
year 1832,
aged 21 years.
Louis XVIII. having died hi 1824 without issue, he was
succeeded by his brother, Charles X., who,
as all our readers
are aware, was compelled to abdicate his throne in July,
1830. His eldest son the dauphin (entitled the Duke
d'Angouleme) at tile same time resigned his pretensions to
the throne in favour of his nephew, the young Duke de
Bordeaux, whose father, the Duke de Berri, was assassinated
at the Opera House, by Louvel, in the year 1820, thereby
affording another instance of the evil destiny of the Bourbon
race.
The Duke de Bordeaux has, however, been compelled, like
the son of Napoleon, to wander abroad for twelve years an
exile from his native land, with very little prospect of ever
recovering the throne of his ancestors.

B. W. Bridges, Bart. is upon the eve of taking his seat in
the House of Lords, as Baron Fitzwalter, a title which goes
back to the time of King John.—Kentish Observer.

The Chambers will soon meet, and the country will express
itself by them. They will surround the throne with the
strength of the nation. It is in circumstances like the present
that our institutions display their energy, and give proofs of
their wisdom. These institutions have been calumniated be-
cause in ordinary times they frequently present the spectacle
of painful divisions, and appear to withhold from liberty
what they take from power. These eternal struggles become
hasrassing, and people are inclined to see in them only the
conflict of ambition ; the silence and tranquility of absolute
monarchies is almost regretted, and it is forgotten that abso-
lute monarchy has also its crisis—more rare, perhaps, but
more terrible, and that under that form of government, when
the day arrives in which the manifestation of national power
becomes necessary, it is not to be found. Our government
is monarchical, but it has the country f4r its basis, and in
times of difficulty we have the chambers as a permanent
great council. What is the advantage of this form of go-
vernment over absolute monarchy if it be not that it is never
brought to a stop in its essential attributes, and does not de-
pend upon the health, the life, or the capacity of a prince.
In absolute monarchies the state is the king, and it
is weak or strong according to his strength or weak
ness. France was great under Louis XIV., and weak and
declining under that of his immediate successor Louis XV.
England, the country of liberty, was never greater than at
the time when her King, George 111., was languishing under
the deprivation of reason. Look, on the contrary, at France
under Charles Vl.—what confusion ! what disunion ! the
country appeared to have lost its senses as well as the King.
If the representative form of government only added the tur-
bulence of liberty to the political crisis of absolute monar-
chies—if it increased the agitation of states without augment-
ing their strength, what must have been the blindness of
our fathers in founding it at the cost of so much blood ? and
what must be our own blindness in braving the perils of a
new revolution in support of it! No, no, France has not
deceived herself ; she will find this government in all its
strength when required. The nation will not be wanting in
duty to itself ; for after all the government is ourselves. It
will be weak only if we become cowardly, and if, wanting
energy, we should not know how to curry out our determi-
nation. Let us show ourselves worthy of our institutions ;
let us bear in mind that we were resolved on being a free
nation. Terrible as is the loss which we have just expe-
rienced, let there be no discouragement. We are masters of
ourselves. We are to-day what we were yesterday. A
prince ever to be regretted has perished. Let us weep for
the loss ; let us console his noble family by manifestations
of affection. Let France watch over the orphan princes, the
noble and affecting inheritance left to us by their father.
Let the remembrance of the Duke of Orleans be their pro-
, tection! Public grief is but too just for a young and beloved
prince.• A prince full of hope and promise has perished.
But our institutions remain, and they are our own work.
The monarchy is erect, and the King and his children sus-
tain it. The chambers, our deputies, the deputies of France,
are about to give to us the support of the national will. Let
us not consider ourselves weak, for we are strong; and the
union, which is already manifesting itself in all the shades
of the national party, should leave us without dread for the
future. The legislature will provide for everything, and the
destinies of a great nation will not, unless it should abandon
itself, be at the mercy of one of those terrible, but ordinary,
accidents to which even the most precious lives are exposed."
The Presse says :

" We dare not hope that all divisions will not cease in the
bosom of the chamber, but at least there is reason to believe
that the immense majority of men devoted to the con-
stitutional dynasty and institutions will escape from
the secret decomposition which undermined them for three
or four years. At present there is no more room for all
those shades of opinion which floated in uncertainty be-
tween the two great parliamentary factions, and which,
by alternately giving or withdrawing their support, perpe-
trated struggles and indecision. It is no longer possible to
ba passionately anxious for those trifling reforms of detail,
which for so long a time divided men devoted all in an equal
degree, we are convinced, to the principles of our govern-
ment. These principles must now be strengthened, and the
duration of the Government must be insured ; confidence in
its future condition must be re-established at home and
abroad ; it is the fruit of twelve years' efforts, wisdom and
success, which it is urgent to preserve for our children
and for ourselves; it is her material prosperity and
her moral greatness, which France prays us to snatch from
the dangers which fatal dissensions could alone produce.
Who would like to assume the responsibility of those dan-
gers? Who would refuse his aid in a crisis where every ex-
istence and every interest are engaged ? We are convinced
that the cause of the government will come out with addi-
tional strength from the trial, which would seem destined
to effect its ruin. We say the cause of the government, and
we use the word in its most elevated and most compre-
hensive acceptation. It is not here a question of a mi-
nisterial interest, but of the constitutional monarchy itself.
The persons who are desirous of preserving to our country
the tutelary guarantee of this institution are more nume-
rous than has hitherto been thought. In this respect, all
the calculations which are found in the journals concerning
the result of the elections will have no importance. It is
no longer possible to make an enumeration of the partisans
or the adversaries of such or such a political system, or
of such or such a public man. The horizon has become
elevated and extended. The Conservative party has a des-
tiny still more lofty than that which appeared reserved for
it ; consequently this party will be increased by all that there
is in France of honest and enlightened minds. It is to this
party that men will flock ; because, under the impression
of the blow which has struck us, the feeling of the necessity
of the conservatism and consolidation have penetrated deeply
in the masses. Every man will be anxious to strengthen the
government, because he finds himself shaken in his own
sphere. Those who are not conservative by instinct will
become so by reflection, and—why should it not be said—by
interest. The whole country, finding itself less guaranteed,
will watch more carefully itself. It will save itself with la-
bour; but it will save itself. It is in this way that the great-
est misfortunes always have, in the impenetrable designs of
Providence, a sort of compensation. Courage, then ! The
circumstances in which we are placed are such as furnish to
a nation the occasion of showing what it is worth. Europe
will have its eyes on us ; it has seen us already escape
triumphantly from difficult trials, but it has perhaps need of
a last proof to remain definitely convinced that we have
strength to surmount every obstacle, and to resist every
storm. Let us give to it this conviction, and it will be not
merely to ourselves a gratification of our self-love, but a new
and glorious manner of assuming it, extending the ascendancy
of France in the world."

MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY AN EMIGRANT
FROM CARDIFF.—(From the New York Mercury of the 19th
May.)—On Saturday morning, a recently arrived emigrant
from Cardiff, in Wales, named John Price, who lodged at
went to Staten Island on business,
No. 71, Cherry-street,
accompanied by his wife, leaving their two children, a boy
and a girl, aged three and five years, at their lodgings. About
three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, the little girl ran
down stairs, and said that a man named Richard Nobbs,
who also lodged in the house, was murdering her little
brother. Some persons immediately ran up stairs, and
found the little boy lying on the floor, dead, with his head
nearly severed from his body. They also found Nobbs lying
on the bead, in the act of cutting his own throat with a dinner
knife. He was immediately secured and a surgeon sent for,
who on examining his neck found that in consequence of the
knife which he used being extremely blunt, the wound he
had inflicted on his neck was not sufficient to endanger his
life. The surgeon dressed his wound, and he was then
brought to the police-office and committed to prison. It ap-
pears that Nobbs arrived in this city from Bristol only on
Friday last, by the ship Jane Babara, and had no acquaint-
ance with or cause of anger against the parents of the child,
nor can he give any reason for having committed the murder.
Ile, however, was extremely ill during the passage, and there
is reason to suppose that he laboured under aberration of
intellect. An inquest was held on the body, and the jury
found a verdict that the child, James Price, came to his
death from a wound inflicted by Richard Nobbs.
ORFORD AND LONDON.—There can scarcely be a contrast
more pregnant with serious reflection than is presented by a
rapid transition from the metropolis to Oxford. It must
be familiar to every one who has travelled in England. Lon-
don itself is one of the most remarkable phenomena in the
world. Its vast size, its dense population, its boundless and
multifarious wealth lying open in the midst of want and vice ;
the splendour of its palaces contrasted with the misery of its
hovels ; the eager, restless faces, marked deep with anxiety
or vice, that throng its streets ; its crowds, where each man
is unknown to the other, and every one is struggling to rise
upon the shoulders of his neighbour ; even the daily supply
of its public wants, secured with a wonderful accuracy,
through the instinctive rapacity of individual selfishness—
altogether form a spectacle of melancholy and painful interest,
most fit to prepare the mind for receiving deeply the impres-
sions produced by the sight of Oxford. From noise, and glare,
and brilliancy, the traveller comes upon a very different
scene—a mass of towers, pinnacles' and spires, rising in the
bosom of a valley, from groves, which hide all buildings, but
such as are consecrated to some wise and holy purpose. The
same river which in the metropolis, is covered with a forest
of masts and ships, here gliding quietly through meadows,
with scarcely a sail upon it—dark and ancient edifices clus-
tered together in forms full of richness and beauty, yet solid
as if to last for ever ; such as became institutions not raised
for the vanity of the builder, but for the benefit of coming
ages—streets, almost avenues of edifices, which elsewhere
would pass for palaces, but all of them dedicated to God—
thoughfulness, repose, and gravity, in the countenance and
dress of their inhabitants; and to mark the stir and business
of life, instead of the roar of carriages, the sound of hourly
bells, calling men together for prayer.—Quarterly Review;
Article on Memorials of Oxford, vol. 61.

VALUE OF PERSONS IN BARBARY.—On the morning of
the 26th, a caravan arrived from Tlemecen ; among those
who came with it were two French renegades and one Spa-
nish, deserters from the Emir's service. The two French-
men stated that they escaped from Oran, to which place they
had been transported to hard labour. The Spaniard con-
fessed that he was a deserter from the Spanish Legion in
the French service; and that he was also a deserter from
the regiment of Zamora, or Eighth Spanish Infantry. From
this corps he had deserted to the ranks of the infamous Ca-
brera. On the latter escaping from Spain, he had accom-
panied him to France, where he had entered the Foreign
Legion. He was thus, according to his own account, a de-
serter from two services. There being, however, no doubt
that they had at present escaped from the service of the
Emir, we had them taken up and salt to Fez, to be dealt
with according to the Emperor's pleasure ; where, in all
probability, they would lose their heads. Let not the reader
accuse me of want of veracity, when I state, that so little
value is placed upon a renegade's life here, that the unfortu-
nate Spaniards who escape from Centa or Melilah are
sold by the chiefs into whose hands they fall, for from
three to four dollars each. Those who have the good
fortune, if such it may be called, to reach Fez, are made
to enter the body-guard of the Emperor, which consists of
about six thousand French and Spanish renegades ; or they
are sent to Ligouri, a town situated about sixteen leagues to
the south of Fez. They are formed into regiments, and offi-
cers are selected from the most intelligent among them : here
they are given ground, furnished with wives, and paid at
the rate of three dollars per month. They are considered
as a sort of soldier-peasants, being obliged to serve the em-
peror whever called upon—something of the plan of the
Russian military villages—which is never the case unless
the emperor himself takes the field. The Jew, in whose
house we were lodged, was a silversmith : he informed me
that another of his trade, an Arab, belonging to the town,
had three Spaniards in his employ, having purchased them
at three, seven, and ten dollars, respectively. Jews are not
allowed to hold slaves ; which appeared to be the cause of
much regret to our host, who, no doubt, would most willingly
have procured some apprentices at the above specified prices.
Black slaves here are extremely numerous ; their price
varies, according to their sex and age, from thirty to eighty
dollars ; a good-looking female has been known to cost one
hundred dollars ; but this is the highest price I have heard
of having been given. A handsome white female will bring
as high as three hundred dollars ; but if they are of a cer-
tain age, as Byron terms it, or not good-looking, they are
then considered as of no more value than a black slave.—
Sir A. Bourne's Cabool.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, JULY 16
[WEEKLY REPORT.)

DISCHARGED

ADAIITTED

Accidents
Medical and Surgical cases
Upon recommendation

30 Cured ...................... 27
Attending as Out Patients ... 15
16 Irregular .................. 0
- Died .......... . ............. 3
46 1
Remainingin the Hospital . . . 76

Watt, -; Independence, Holdredge ; Isabella, Johnson;
Adironack, Mallett; Tarolinta, Smith; Fairfield, Wilson; Jane
Auguste, Clark; Cornelia, French; Oseola, Barstow; Henry
Bliss, Smith; Importer, M'Pherson; Europe, Marshall; Elizabeth
Denison. Post; Oliver Branch, Dyer ; Great Britain, Proal; Vir-
ginian, Allen; Glenview, Salters; Birmingham, Robinson; and
Birmingham. Robinson, hence at New York

South Esk, Wishart; Jane Walker, Gilles; Princess, Vaughan;
Cathleen, Willians ; Frances, Wescott; Thetis, Vaughan; Henry
Hood, Scott: Glasgow, Douglas; Nancy, Henderson • Crown,
Black, and Mary Caroline, Brewer, hence at St. John, N. 8.1
Chrometer, Furse ; 10, Barnes ; Standard, Montgomery ; Comp-
ton, Jeffrey, and Alpha, hence at Quebec
Mary Muir, from Quebec for Liverpool, was in contact with the
Unicorn, (steamer) in the St. Lawrence, 20th ultimo, and lost
jibboom, head. cutwater, &c.
Rose, from St. John, N.B. for Liverpool, was spoken sth instant,
in lat. 45, long. 40
Josephine, from Hnll, at Richibucto
Alexander, Murray, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool gth
July

Amalia, D'Osollo, sailed fi om Bilboa for Liverpool 3rd July
Laurel, Moot, sailed from Nantes for Liverpool 11th instant
Sarah, Pines, from Philadelphia for Hull, off the Wight
John Romilly, Kendall. from St. John, N.B. at Cove

CLIFELEN, July l 2.—A North AmeriCan built vessel, about ,400
tons, nearly new, copper fastened, and laden with American oak
staves, drifted on Baffin Island Bth instant, bottom up.
QuEnec, June 21.—The Courier, from Montreal for Lixerpo of
is on shore at Metis, with eight feet water in her hold.

SUNDAY, JULY 17.—Wind S.E. fresh.
ARRIVED.—Rose, Kelly, from St. Stephen.

Thorn, Pocklington, hence at Brake
Gazelle, Breckwold, hence at Hamburg
Pomona, Briggs, hence at Swinnemunde
MaryB, Fleicher, hence at Riga
Barbara, Purse, at St. Petersburg
Hebe, Sharland, from Monte Video, at Cove
Clyde, from Tampico, off ditto
Arrow, Richards, sailed from Charente for Liverpool 12th July

MONDAY, JULY 18.—Wind S.S.E,

OFF TUE PORT.—Rising Sun, from Laguna—and Reindeer, from
Ancona.

SAILED.—Try, Howes, for Dordt—and Zorg en Vlyt, Berghaus
for Rotterdam.

Charles, Le Grand, Candlish, from Cadiz to Rio Janeiro, put
back to the former port Ist instant, leaky
Juanna, hence for Valparaiso, and Palmyra, for New York, off
Tuskar 14th instant

Robert, Mary Queen of Scots, and Floraville, hence at Fernain
buco

Reward, Polndixter, hence at Gibraitar
Feneila, Smardon, from Malaga, ditto, for Liverpool
Serafin, Galdez, sailed from Cadlz for Liverpool 3rd June
James Graham, Graham, and Annabella, Gardnsr, hence at
Lisbon
Wm. Rushton, Smith, sailed from ditto for Liverpool gth instant
Oporto, Barnes, sailed from Oporto for Liverpool 11th instant