The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-07-31


The Chambers are wearIed, and the thermometer !
stands at ninety in the shade The deputies pant for
rural retirement and hurry the abors of the session
close grand reform banquet. to be shared by all
who favor parliamentary electoral reform is TO be
given In the gardens Of the Chateau Rouge the 9th
II Is cypected 70 be attended by nearly thousand
formers OF all shades The grand opera ia closed for
two months ths management having changed hands. |
NJ Leon elle who has conducted 1t with very little
m several years. and gives place to other
adventursus spectators The decorations to be
ssncs q that high order Of vocal talent which alone
could,Dommand success at present
The Duke and Duchess Of Montpensier gave q most
magnificent fste ehamPere on Monday evening last In
the Bots dc Vneenns, at which three thousand Of the
st Of Paris attended II the most gorgeous thing
OF the Kind that Paris has witnessed for many long
day All the younger members of the royal family
in Paris were present az was also Christine the Queen
Dowagsr Of Spain with her husband the Duke Of Ran-
zsres and suite and tho corps dipioaque The alleys
Of the wood were hung with millions Of colored lamps
and tastefny decorated with military trophies and
showers OF Bengal lights shed the nocturnal revels
artificial day.
Louis Philippe and his family just about to leave
Paris on tbeir annual visit to the Chateau of Eu
Their relatives the King and Queen Of the Begiaps
expected to pass some time with them there.
NJ Guizot, wearied W tia the tolls Of the session, is
about to retire for weeks to his country seat ut the
Val Kicker, and shall have suspension of politics
here, at least for some time TO come.
p S.-Snce writing the above, event has occurred
of interest In the financial world The Minister Of
Finance has presented to the Chambers project ofaw
for raising loan OF 100000 900 francs-S 900 900
Although this has been long expected it thought
lattery that the would be postponed till next
not admit Of delay.
From the London News, July I6l
The Paris Journals Of Tuesday the 18th inst toseth-
with our usual letters have been received.
The most strange investigation in progress before the
French court Of proceeds and each day marked
by the development Of events and extraordi
nary II impossible to convey adequate notion Of
the intense interest with which the proceedings
garded, Of theAinful curiosity which is manifested
eye Monday looked for NJ. Pellapra, whose return
had been rumored the preceding day, and whose pre-
at the bar OF the chamber was confidently expect
ed The letters of Mad Pellapra and their enclosures
the letter of her husband to her his departure from
tened to in profound silence As the evidence gradual
ly brought the truth to light, and the guilt seemed
by every fresh testimony to closer and closer to
Teste that person evnced the utmost GOODNESS and the
most unfinching selfpossession examining and Cross
examining the witnesses wth all the dispassionate
adroitness Of counsel acting the feed advocate Of
third party At the rising Of the court O'clock NJ
Teste against whom such mass OF evidence
had been brought appeared to DO the least affected nd
The bewidering doubts in which the report of the
proceedings and the air Of confident innocence of the
accused left the public, were soon destined to DO dis
PEELED, and this curious drama was to receive
foreseen denouement: At half past eight o'clock
heard to issue from the apartments in the Luxem
bourg occupied by the prisoners The in charge
ard the guards instantly rushed to the and found
that M Teste had attempted suicide with pistols but
without success II appears that he first placed pistol
I'd with secd he the mouth Of the barr close
against his breast and discharged It. The ball under
these circumstances seems not to have acquired force
enough to enter the body fell to the ground merely
leaving black mark the wastcoat and the skim bur
without producing apy confusion, as was incorrectly
stated In VI the published accounts The Chancel
or the grand reierendary and the members OF the
mittes Of the chamber appointed to conduct the trial
were Immediately summoned, and tho conniissary ct
police of the district well the project OF the police
attended The prooureur general and the police auho
rites made OF the transaction NJ reste
ordered to be kept secret with proper precautions
against any repetition Of the attempt 1T sefdestruct ton
The only person who visited NJ Teste after his retire
member the Chamber vi Deputies This circumstance
has given rise The report that the loaded psto
thus supplied to him. report IL mentioned in Galig
nani's paper that he leaving the court Mon.
day evening, he was heard to sxclaim "Je suts un
homme perdu"
Wa give elsewhere ,.suae OF the proceedings Of the
court Tuesday which Of cut short by the
events Of the preceding night. On being summoned to
attend the court NJ. Teste declined owledgng the
unanswerable nature Of the proof against him and in
substance confessng that he accepted the wages OF
ruption. The act of corruption by Peapra, and the
completely Of General Cubieres and NJ Parnentisr
not denied by their respective advocates and they
spondent closed his dispatches the sentence Of
the court had not been declared.
The King and Queen Of the Belgians, with their
the Duke OF Brsbant, are at Neuilly The King and
Queen Of the French, and Madame Adelaide, with the
Duchess of Orleans aad her children are at Dreux at
tending the religious solemoities which mark the ami
vesay of the death Of the Duke of Orleans wnch took
place on July 49,
The weather continues to be highly favorable. The
late rains have been succeeded by unclouded 6rma
ment and high temperature At six In the morning on
Monday. the Thermometer in the shade stood at 70%
deg II to Sc deg and at two O'Clock it at
tanned s5 deg an unusual temperature In these ati-
tudes
ROW, July 9, 1917.
EDIroR New YORK HERALD--
We here In a curious position Our sovereign Is
liberal and enlightened radical priest who the
necessity and proprety of allowing the country to move
forward with the common progress Of the civilized
world He ia checked by the overruling power of Aus
TRAN diplomacy, connived at by France and encou-
ragged by this his council of Cardinals have mutned
thwarted his designs rendered his abortivc
disappointed his hopes and compromised his popu
larity The populace who Ill able to appreciate the
difficulties against which the sovereign pontn has to
struggle ascrbe to him the symptoms Of reaction
really the work OF others and within the last few
days the holy father who, lately appeared with
out exciting the nthusastc acclanatons passed
through the assembled multitude amid the most omi-
nous silence The better informed, knowing where the
fault really lies talk of popular movements reyolu-
tion in fact which shall secarse the government Of
the Papal States; placing, nevertheless Fius IN as
sovereign over IL for life.
The liberal movement, which took place soon after
the accession of Plus TX, is suspended The press Is
allowed a quasi existence. The railways flag The
municipal reforms stand STILL Let hope that my next
letter will bring better tdings.
Spain
MADRID, July l, isi7.
EDITOR New YoRK HERALD
The royal palace here has been the theatre OF some
curious events Your readers doubtless recoect how
the queen and her consort after their union mani
tested mutual GOODNESS and repugnance, occupied diff
ferent ends Of the palace and how finally the prince
quit the royal roof ceased to cohabit with her
majesty and betook himself to the Pardo royal hunt
ing lodge not far from Madrid The royal pair have not
seen each other for months; meanwhile how
ever Appearances kept up by the continued resi-
dence of the father and sister of the prince coDaor with
the queen and the appearance with her whenever she
into public All this, however, was brought to a
few days since, when to the astoDishment of all
Madrid, the nfante Don Francisco and his daughter,
the father in-aw and sster-inaw Of the queen were
suddenly ordered to quit the palace and TO leave Madrid
They bundled out, bag and baggage, with the
smallest possible CEREMONY aud the least possible delay
Many have been the corjectures, add various the
couns OF ths OF TINS most sudden and unsxpect
ed move IL Is certain that the measure adopted
with the concurrence aud the responsibility Of minis
terB ass gns o. Don Francisco the guilt OF
joining In coospira.,s directed agniust the f.
her majesty When the lniante compelled, by the