New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-03-17
NEW.YORK TRIBUNE.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Tribune.
lJsn ano gnk portraiis -. No. II.
TRAsCE....M. THEIRS.

..gs--the Passage ELECTROMAGNETIC gloomy
IA ko,l garri whose uninviting chambers a stran-
Ger might suppose would be likely to remain long
.oourh without tenants. The man whose curiosity
1. greater than his regard for his neck may find his
way 10 the dark and mysterious staircase until he
,,snds upon the fifth, or, as the French will have
IL The fourth floor. There be will discover low,
n,rrv srnoke-blacked door, and on opening il he
viii box into sort Of den sometimes called a
chamber the furniture Of which consisted not many
vesrs since Of chest Of drawers. a mean walnut
bedstead. two chairs little black rickety table,
se and set of bedding that boosted Of its anti
euity as an English n0blemsn does OF the antiquity
Of his family.
Afew years ago there might have been seen
seated at that tsble--with books and papers piled
sroord him on the hoor-a young man whose look
". FAR more hopeful than his prospects were
promising But he had spirit energy and talent,
and be felt that be must and would succeed though
be was now as poor and friendless as young man
IN Paris well could be. II is mans Will that
makes his fortune oftener than wealth or friends
sDd never did the will carry man through from
the lowest to the highest condition more triumph.
snfly than in this case
That nervous, thoughtful young man Flooding
among his books and newspapers, and living on
thirty sous a day, was LOUIS ADoIPHE THEIRS
he was BON at MsrseiIes on the 26th Germinal
Of the wear v which being translated into Chris
tan language means April le, 1927 His father
was lOcksmith and small iron merchandise
mother an of.shoot Of broken-down merchant
family. as poor 40 she was proud.
The mother Of Theirs had some relatives who
possessed little more influence than herself
and they procured hiIa 20 be admitted asss free
scholar in the Imperial Lyceum Of Marseles'
where he studied with credit until ISIS, when be
went to Ak to study law. There be met a young
ran as poor and as arsbitious as himsei-a stu
dent from Avignon-and n Mignet the historian is
about he only friend to whom Theirs has always
been faithful The reason may be that Mignet
never interiered with him.
The two friends were law students. 1t is true
~. they studied history and philosophy and itera'
.are far more faithfully than law while young
Theirs. already demagogue, preached against the
Restoration and glorifed the Republic and the En-
pirc. headed party and procured himself to be
hated BY the Faculty. watched BY the police. and
wonhiped by the students.
His daring and reckless course necessarily in
iured his standing as a scholar. One year in the
Academy Of AK be lost his prize of EloQuenee
though his composition was the best sent in
Rather however, than give the prize to him the
Faculty sdjoured the final trial to the next year
When the time came. the old composition reap
pesred. but q far better one was received from
Paris and the worthy gentlemen Of the Faculty
rroiced in the opportunity OF decreelng the prize
10 The Parisian competitor. so as to reject Theirs
The prize was 6ecreed, but what was their aston
shment on opening the envelOp which concealed
the authors 70 find that it was Theirs himself
who had written a new Grafton on the same sub.
jet, caused it 70 be copied. sent it to Paris and
had II returned to AK to mystiiy and entraP his
benevolent tutors-in which malignant pleasure he
had most admirably succeeded
Theirs was admitted 10 the bar OF AK but the
ustocraey OF that town would not brook his radi-
cal notions He got no employment ana WIN ms
tnend Mignet he came TO Pans to seen ms fortune
md took his quarters in the room have already
described
Here In poverty and rsstlessness, he waited Tor
the hour of fortune. II came at last Manuel the
orator was violently expelled from the Chamber
under the Ministry Of Vilele. The expulsion made
hin a great man. Theirs saw that his time was
cone; he went to Manuel, who with the warm
spirit Of their native South, received him with
open arms, presented him 70 LATTE and procured
hin to be admitted among the Editors of the Con
sisfwitonrl
He still lived in his den, but his thoughts found
ieir way out into the world and men were sur
Fised at his nervous and audacious articles which
appeared almost daily in the columns of the Con I
vsfsfiOnHd The salons Of LATTE, of Casimir 4
Perier, Of Baron Louis, and even of Taleyrsnd 1
hmseli-who looked well 10 those whom he re
eeived-were opened to him, and he found himself /
a. once in the first circles OF Paris.
Wherever he went, he talked much, asked many /
more questions than be made statements-heard /
al that was said watched every motion that was 4
zsSe weighed all reasons and comprehended all /
yurposes. He forgot nothing and lost no impress {
an and when he returned from the salons TO his 4
den he was prepared 20 write an article for the 4
ceastitHfionRoi which would agree with the spirit
4 his party or 10 add page 10 his history OF the
French Revolution from the recolections a the Old
hsn he had met and whom he always preferred TO
ecasalt rather than books.
AZ this time he was engaged upon his great
ro,k l. Histoiye de Ia Revolution FraHeasse "a
work OF merit but which has the fatal vice OF al
ways Prsising the successful and damning the
allen, whatever the facts may have been. The
'aeilty with which bis Judgment Of parties is
changed by their fortune is good exhibition OF the
strange hckleness Of bis own mental constitution,
Thiers history made q sensation IN the word
and brought him some enemies and many iriends
and admirers. Among the latter was Schaoart,
sernsn bookseller who put him in relation with
sron Cofts-another bookseller hey ond the KLINE
nlilionsire and a man OF immense influence
yous conceived most extrsvagant admiration oil
! hsers and among many other fsvors gave hIm
mare IN the CONDITIONED. At that time highly
productive piece Of property.
ihicrs came down from his den--turned exqul-
,se-ste ices at Tortonis-dined at the Rocher dc
: hoae-and drove his splendidturnoatt TO CAamPs
etysess and the pleasant shades OF Boss de Boz
egHe while to his eternal disgrace. poor SchubGt
= as ieu 20 return TO Germany on foot and TO die
sooa. discoatented with the Constitutional. as
70 conservative for a man Of his spirit IN 1878 be
saneed 1As NafiOaai and. with the patronage OF
ne extreme let and the assistance Of the most
eoes revolutionary writers, he made il soon q
'sRei 70 be noticed and feared
iners directed al has force against the Govern
sem o. toe Restoration The Ministry Of Polgnsc.
'en' On Ansolutism. and the Charter which led to
..ioe,ty' could not exis, together. The National
Dunoered IN defence Of the Charter as the surest
asans Of destroying the Government. Nothing
vas done, nothing was left undone. by the Min
~ that was not heino1s sin 10 the eyes
N; Theirs. He did not allow that there was or
ouid BE the least good in the conduct or dispost