The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-02-04

Mr.. Passy has been likewise raised to the peer
age. This circumstance is equally very important,
first, because he and Teste men of great talent,
who will forfy and elevate the upper chamber,
who till now has been considered as the hospital of
all old deaf and blind Generals and Ministers and
second, because IT may produce change in the po-
sltlon OF the respective parties in the Chamber of
Deputies. Passy was the head Of those deputies,
amongst whom the ministers OF the twelfth Of May
were chosen his place, will now be taken by Mr..
Dufaure who is rather LIBERAL and is expected to go
over to Theirs one of these days. Guizot could not
refuse the peerage to Passy, who asked it, else he
would not have run the chance of increasing
Theirs strength, who begins to think seriously
about office, and who would certainly not coniine
himself to thinking only, if the question of the for
tlhcatons would be disposed of Having made the
report in 1910 he would be obliged to defend them,
at the risk of his popularity, which is the goddess
he adores
Our holy mother church has shown her teeth for
some time, but now she begins to be quite FESTIVE.
Nearly all OF the higher clergy require the dismis-
whose views they consider dangerous to the
Catholic religion. The Bishop Of Chaloas has IN
derdcted the administration Of the sacrement In
the chapel of his diocese, and threatens TO excom-
municate the Professois Most of the bishops and
archbishops are Carllsts, and Lonis Philippe, who
knows their influence and power in the provinces,
is afraid Of offending them. He confines him.
self to proclaim in the Moniteur, that there
was an ab1s, about which the prelates care
about as much, as if you would say to mis-
chievous hoy you are naughty; on the contrary
they are proud of mourning the displeasure of the
King of the French This intolerant spirit exh-
bits itself even in paltry things, as for instance
the of Moliere's monument, at the Inaugural
ton Of which the Minister of the Interior refused
to assist at the advice OF the Archbishop OF Paris.
So likewise priest refused to accompany the cot
Tin OF young woman, because she was servant to
Dejazet, the actress
The storm called mp through the journey Of the
Duke de Bordeaux to London is far from having
subsidized. The Court is very uneasy, and II was
that h,o oh NJ
will allude TO the bad conduct OF the Deputies and
Peers who went over But it was abandoned, be-
cause it would have the appearance as if the pr vate
affairs OF the King would be mixed up with those
of the nation. They cannot be prosecuted, since
they went SIMPLY on visit, without having any
political ends in view, they say This constl-
tutes no crime, but only msdemeanor OF a private
| nature, and does not come under the Jurisdiction
of Parliament or the Chambers. The only way in
which the King showed his anger, was in dismiss
ing six distinguished Iegitimists from the post Of
a Mayor in several small places The prosecution
against the leg'lmlstical press continues many
La Quotidienne, aud La France, having been
seized. Of course the organs of the opposition call
out, " Those September laws" but neither Theirs
nor Barrot appear to notice them, because they
pre after Office, and know the value of those laws
to men IN power.
The affairs of Spain continue in the same unset
tied or rather uproarious state as before. The
Cortes are prorogued, and will be dissolved Olo-
zaga fed to Portugal for the sake of avoiding the
accusation pending over him. Some say that he
returned in secret to Madrid others affirm that he
went to Logrono, whose Deputy he was, with a
view Of getting reelected, so that he might defend
himself in person. Meanwhile Mr.. Donoso, &C.
companied by General Ros de Oano, have arrived
in Paris to invite Queen Christina to return to
Madrid and to take back the. guardianship ovel
| her second daughter Louisa, of Which she was de-
prived in 1871 She is therefore leaving PaHs IN
the beginning of February; but what is she goinl
to do there, not beng reigning Queen or Regent
II Is believed that the French Court tries hard to
persuade her not 10 RETURN as her name will be used
by conending factions; but she appears anxious to
see her daughters. Hypocrisy, nothing more; foI
she has proved herself bad mother; is her dowry
she wants, which has been stopped by Espartero'
| artstlcal and social world. The celebrated Gaia
lani is said to be really dead, although the Patrt
contradlcts the report. should not be astonlshed
| has been killed four times within few years. L
was the same with Paganin, who died six times in
one year Mr. Cue one OF our best scenery pain
tiers, Mr.. VOLTS, lawyer, celebrated through hi.
manager of the Italian Opera, left this vale Of ears
fora better world. The ex-king OF Holland is like
wise dead; he abdicated the seventh Octobre, $40
and was succeeded by the present king, his son
who is married to the sister OF the Emperor o.
| Russia The deceased king played a conspicuou,
part in the principal events of the last fifty years
| but his popularity much impaired through the
confusion in the finances Of the Kingdom princl
pally caused by his rspacity and sock-lobbing pro-
pensties, by means of which he left the immense
sum Of three hundredland twelve million of francs
He married only few years back, the Countess d
Oultrsmont, who is Belgian and a Catholic
This union was very much opposed by his family
and the nobility, that he found 1t necessary L
abdicate before the contamination Of the act.
In the mortuary list OF December, figures like
wise the name of Lavoisler, nephew of the grea
savant, who died upon the scatioid, and could no
even obtain from his execuoners respite of few
DAYS, so that he might be enabled to finish some
very important chemical experiments. His nephew
was cabinet maker, and died in the bicetre il
the greatest misery France and the world have
to bewa the death of of the greatest poets o.
the age, in the person of Caslmlr Delavigne, who
expired in Lyons on his way to Montpelier, where
he intended residing during thewlnter His disease
was kind of languor, which gave his numerou.
friends great anxiety although his end was not con
sidered to be near at hand. An hour before he
died. he asked his wife, to read him some chapters
from Walter Scott's Gny Mannering, and as hel
planned t!pt she skipped many phrases, and gave
the book 70 his son, who is only ten years of age
few moments after, his head Tell upon the cushion
and he began TO recite some verses from an unfn.
ished tragedy. Two minutes more, and he had
ceased to live His body was brought to Paris and
buried in the Pere-Lachaise, attended by about sIz
thousand persons, amongst whom were all dlstln-
guished men present in the city. Victor Hugo pro-
nounced the oraison funebre, and DupreZ sang the
mass. There was performance at the French
Theatre that evening
Caslmir Delavigne was the greatest tragedan of
the present time all his pieces met with unbound
ed favor, principally his ccole DIES Vielllards les
enfans d'Edouard, Don Juan d'Autriche ct Louis
ONE. He was equally distinguished a lyric
poet, being the author of les Messcnennes His
statue is going to he placed in the foyer of the
Theatre Francais, but his greatest monument are
his works.
Because am Just talking about monuments, ]
will menon that the statue of the still living Ros-
SIM is nearly finished. Mr.. Etex is the author,
and he refused every compensation for his trouble.
The committee consists of Vatel, Auber, Meyer
beer, Donizett, Duprcz, AIRY Schefler, and OF
beers are Baron Rothshild, Colonel Thorn, the
heirs of Aguado, and Baron Demar This is de
cidedy the age of monuments; the statues OF
twenty-four of the greatest captains OF the empire
are to be placed round the arc de fctoile Mo-
liere got his monument two hundred years after
his death--and over the house where he was born,
In the Rlchelleu, number thirty -four, figures "A
white marble slate, with al inscription, put up last
month