The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-27

(perhaps) Regent and hsgento OF France, are 70
meet the Queen OF Spain and her immaculate moth
er on the Bidassoa, in order, il is said, 70 make
some matrimonial arrangements. The Duke de
Montpensier TO marry the Queens younger sister,
while her Majesty Is to give her hand to the brother
of the Duchess dc Nemours. The Queen is in very
delicate health; and II she should die without a
child, why then-why then--her sister, the Ouch
de Montpensier that is to be, if all goes right,
will be Queen; and Prince Cobourg Kohary will
have secured something comfortable in the shape
of some millions Of Spanish maravedis
The annexation Of Texas, which has made John
Bull so furious, or rather lachrymose seems 10
please everybody here; though they all lament that
the diplomatic representative of France M. Dubois
de Saligny, should have made such of him
self Ridicuie Jantaron is the mildest term that
have heard applied to him. The Mexicans are con-
sidered as the dupes Of Great Britain, who, after
leading them on by promises, to threaten war, now
acks ou, when the contingency occurs under
which il was to have been declared.
The poor Mexicans, too, have lost the support OF
the French government in consequence Of the treat
ment received by Baron Aleye de Ciprey, the
French minister, from soldier or constable. By
the latest news, il seems that Mr. Bankhead the
British minister, had offered his mediation to ar
range matters but, unless that parsonage has ac-
quired some head, or tact Of manners, since knew
him in Washington, he will scarcely succeed. The
Paris newspapers with which Except the MoGiteur,
the Debats, and the Sieele) diplomatsls not in
favor, ridicule the whole matter; and II seems by
means probable that fleet will be sent to batter
down ST. Juan d'Uoa, in order to wipe out the in
suit to the minister.
Another source of qualification to the French is
afforded by the Of the Russians in the eau
casus, which clearly understood here in spite of
the veil which Woronzof and Dolgorousk endeavor
in their dispatches TO cast them. Thamil, the
Add el-Kader OF Circassa, is quite the hero of the
day, and will no doubt be soon brought upon the
boards of the Porte St. Martin.
Eugene Sues Juif Errant is still dragging on his
weary and wearying existence but as every one
around him is dying we may suppose that he will
not last much longer This is certainly the most
absurd work Of the day. Perhaps the author is
laughing in his sleeve its success. If he be ser-
Gus, he must have strangely perverted TASTE He
chose one of the grandest subjects imaginable, and
has surrounded it by the vilest accessories and in
order to raise these accessories to a respectable
height, he has placed them on stills. What he in
tends to do with his remaining drdnatis personG ii
is not easy to conceive. He should place Made
moiselle Adrienne de Cardovile, and her friend La
Mayeux, in partnership as milliners; let Prince
Djalma peddle rhubarb, and the Wandering Jew sell
old clothes. (I'he book is since finished. The
whole is republished at New York; and the author
expires in an Epogue
But Eugene Sue, and all other French and Eng
lish and even American novewritcrs, are likely to
be thrown into the shade by that cleverest of all
mulattoes, Alexandra Dumas. His Comte dc Mon
tecristo, which has been for year past occasionally
filling the teuiieton of the Journal des Debats is
of the most intensely interesting productions Of that
class written. The incidents extraord-
nary, but all within the limits of the possibles-ex
cept, perhaps, in one or two points Admit that
poor young sailor who is thrown into dun
geon at twenty years DID, and kept there fifteen
years, with no other companion than old Italian
priest, can come out an accomplished scholar gen
tleman, and man Of the world; and, moreover, the
posaessor ola million or two ofdollars-and there is
nothing more in the work to shock you. All the
rest proceeds in the most natural manner insignia
BILE; and yet defy the most experienced novel
reader--and have, as you know, some experience
in that way--to foresee what is about to happen in
any case. must acknowledge that my first care,
on returning from Switzerland, was to assemble the
numbers of the newspaper containing these deght-
full chapters, which kept me entranced for some
days and nights, to the manifest detriment Of my
eyes. IL is said that Dumas gets fifty thousand
francs for the work.
The newspapers here occasionally present us with
dramas, scarcely less interesting, in real life. They
begin now 10 record the proceedings of criminal
trials much more at length than formerly; and as
Judges, lawyers, witnesses, and criminals are all
freer in their language than in England or the Uni
ted States, so the reports are more interesting
greater latitude being also left to the reporter We
have lately had thrty-o criminals on the stand at
once, all charged with the same robbery. On an
other occasion, nearly an equal number were tried
for counterfeiting the government stamps on false
ewelry; and the whole court was, on another occa-
sion, kept convulsed with laughter, in case of a
suit between an old woman and her daughter, a
pretty young actress of the Vaudeville, who insisted
retaining herself the fruits Of all her labors, intel
ectue and physical. The lawyers, Messrs. Leon,
Duval, and Dupin, made some most comic develop
ments in this case In another case, ono of the
criminals is an ex secretary of Abd-elKad
CETERA DESUNT.