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The rumors aaoat as to what hirh-titled, high

chances for the father, and viceroy of Algiers
for the son. Ii is enough 10 know that they Will
draw largely, under one pretense or another, on
the public treasury. Little real power will be
committed TO 30 incompetent hands What the
young mans chances are Of being named pre-
sumptive heir probably no one but his cousin
knows. Ii speaks Ill for the Bonaparte blood II
no better than be can be selected, for there are
eight living msle descendants of Lucien and Je-
rome BOnaparte, any one OF whom, OF course,
comes within the range Of contingent adoption.
The two American descendants of jerome, and
the five descendants of Lucien, by marriage
not authorized by his brother, are of course ex-
cluded from the Imperial family. That family
numbers, females included, twenty-One mem
bers Then come, as members OF Louis NapO-
Icons family, though not Of the Imperial family
that il, the descendants Of the sisters OF Napols-
on the Great. The Murats-numerous and hun.
gry-fall within this category. The whole OF
them-between thirty and forty in all-fall with
more or less violence on the treasury One OF
the sons of the Prince de Canine, coming like
the rest therefore within the range OF adoption,
the present Prince OF MusignanO, was born in
Philadelphia 18th February, 1924. The Prince
Of Leuchtenberg. sOn-in-law OF the Emperor
Nicholas, the news of whose death reached here
the day that the Senate offered the crown 10
Louis Napoleon, had been spoken OF by Madame
RumOr as the adopted heir Of our impending
Emperor. He was the son, you will remember,
of Eugene Beauharnais, and so cousin OF the
Prince President. The relationship was doubt
less the main justification OF the ruInOr. A still
more extravagant one now speaks of his widow
as the future wife OF the Emperor Of the French
| should say, in passing, that this prince was,
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Prince of Sweden, of his blood, has lately de-
ceased The King of Sweden, the King of Den.
mark, and princess Of his house. are all more
or less dangerously III. The ex-EmperOr of
Austria, uncle of the reigning monarch has had
another severe epileptic attack, and received
the last sacrament. But what are the deaths OF
this kind OF princes 10 the world No great
light goes our with them. Successors, ready
labelled by divine right, are at hand
The news OF the death of Daniel Webster fell
heavily upon us. Americans here seem 10 feel
the blow more painfully now than in the case OF
Clay-perhaps only that il strikes anew on an
unhealed wound A meeting ofOur c0untrymen
will be held tomorrow, to devise some fitting
expression Of griefio our common loss. Nearly
all the Paris journals have paid their tribute OF
respect 10 bis memory, III eloquent essays on his
life and talents.
Lamartine las completed his History Of The
RestourdtiOR The seventh volume, published
few days since, treats in his dramatic style, in a
series OF brilliant episodes, OF the Congress of
Verona, the war in Spain, the death of Louis
XVIII and the accession of Charles Y. The
eighth and last volume containing the reign OF
the last OF the Bourbons, is in press A new
edition Of his History of the Revolution is about
to appear. A Life cf Queen HorenSe, by Leon
Venzac, is announced. A book with that title
should be interesting, but we caA hardly look
for historical impartiality, under that title, ct
the present time
The indefstigable, inaccurate, but extremely
entertaining Alexander Dumas, has written
History OF Louis XVI, the first half OF which is
now in the book shops The rest will soon be
published Meantime, be is completing his
Memoirs" of himself and all contemporaries
for the ieuilleton of the Prose-, and confessed
romance for the leuilletOn of the Pays. Speak
ing offeuilletons, am reminded to say that four
OF the translatiOns OF Uncle TOMS Cabin appear
in that form in the Paris journals. Another,
completed, is for sale in book form. Others, |
am told, are in hand. You are doubtless aware
that Mrs Stoves work has appeared in Ger
man dress Elias Regnaults History of Eight
Years-the Reign OF Louis Philippe from 1910
to lS4S-iS now complete, in ten volumes, at
five francs the volume. / mention the price of
il for the benefit of those who should wish to
order it, as many will do, doubtless, who read
with interest Louis Blanc's History of the pre-
ceding ten years, to which Regnault's work is
the sequel. NJ. de Cormenin, the famous OPP
position pamphleteer in Louis Phlippes time,
better known on your side OF the water by the
name of TimOn, (nOt our LOrgncttish friend
John of that name,) and his Book of Orators,
has just reappeared in litcrature-n oticeably,
though, in a very small way. He has pretaceda
little pamphlet by another hand, entitled The
Empire is the Sovereignty OF the People by
three little pages OF his own ideas. NJ. de Cor
menin says: There is only one political sover-
eighty, which is that of the universally OF the
nation. There is onlyone political truth, (rertt)
which is that Of the majority. Above the sover-
eighty of the people, there is nothing by right,
Cen drod.) Above the will of the majority,
there is nothing in fact, Cen tda.)" lie closes
his preface with these words: a period always
arrives when God who is the author OF righs.
does not suffer the right TO be violated This
is noticeable. not so much because il is written
byM. de Cormenin, at present one OF Louis Ma
poleon's Senators, as because of the expression
OF the doctrine, Il mean, of course, the EIoterie
doctrine.) taught BY Louis Napoleon, and devel-
oped so frequently OF late by NapoleOnists-the
doctrine, namely, that the Empire is in fact the
best of democracies and that, too, the Emperor
is monarch by divine right not indeed, by the
old Bourbon variety of Del srdtid, but by the
roI pOpui, rOr del species.
The celebrated German authoresS, Ida Count
ess Hahn-Hahn. whose writings a few years
since SO much scandalized and whose later CON
version to the Catholic faith has so much edited
religious Europe, has within few days entered
upon her noviciate in Nunnery at Anglers.
c. X. B.