The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-25


nifty These appointments are very Significant
and have given rise to in6nity of commepta'
ries Three are especially comic and unexnect.
ed-the three prefecte of Lyons, MarseilIes. and
Toulouse. The latter has done 90 MANY ahsnra;
ties, during his administration of the Haute q.
rome, that his dismissal has for long time been
looked for. Four months ago thought myself am.
thorized to speak in your columns of his imnend;n
Disgrace. You may remember that at the time IF
the Presidents southern tour this project Chanuvs
de Worthwhile by name, Issued an address to ii.
vassals couched in style intended to initiate the
Bible. The finale went thus "Deck yours.lves
then, with flowers and garlands and come to Ton.
louise, the queen city, to acclaim bis imperial
highness the best and greatest of princes shout
and be glad with songs.'' Still later, few DAYS
before the vote for the empire took place he decreed
that the vote aronne should be inscribed
In bronze and deposited with the archives ofthe de-
partment. The whole continent smiled at Mr.
Montlaville's zeal, and it was felt in Paris that
the government was toe much compromised by
his folly to retain him in power. The Pays in
enumerating his claims to promotion, says that
the country has not forgotten the welcome Extend
ed to Louis Napoleon at Toulouse The Pays ia
charmingly nay; one would hardly expect gov.
eminent paper to ascribe the enthusiasm of a re-
We have always been given to understand hereto
fore that it was owing to the popularity of the
President and the delirium of the inhabitants The
two other projects much the same sort of men
as he OF Garonne, and the Emperor has found IL
indispensable to get rid of them. 1t is not neces.
sary to consider their appointment to the Senate az
promotion or recompense. am convinced we
shall be nearer the mark in regarding their re-
moval as dictated by prudence, and their admis-
sion into the Senate as acknowled gment of
their zeal and good intentions. A senator cannot
compromise the government; a project can. The
other nominees not particularly noticeable;
none of them are known on your side of the Att
lantic.
The late warnings inflicted on the Presse and the
Assemblee Rationale have one feature of injustice
about them. The Assenblse was carr wing IN an ar.
gument with the Constitutionnel and had conducted
1t with unusual reserve and propriety. When a
warning thus steps In and cuts short the discus
sion, 1t always looks as if the government paper
found itself unable to continue the struggle, and
had called on the Minister of Police to stop its adj.
versary's mouth La Mode, a Legitimist review,
which was warned at the same time, must really
have expected it. The Yicomte d'Arlincourt quotes
passage from Louis Napoleon's speech, before
the vote of the lst of December, 1S48. which made
him President for four years: "If | should be
elected, l should devote myself entirely to the
founding OF republic, wise by its laws honest in
Its Intentions, great and strong by its acts
would stake my sacred honor to leave, four years
afterwards, to my successor the government
strengthened, liberty intact" &C.. and 80 on as be
used to talk in those days. The wording of the
warning gives M. d'Arlincourt to understand that
such quotations are outrage upon the national
sovereignty With this exception, there is no po-
litical news of moment. t-. s-f
Balzac, according to memoir just published,
became dramatist late in life, and it seems that
it was quarrel with Alexandra Dumas which in
duced him to write his first play. He had always
disliked his great rival, from very natural lea
lousy. He was one day insisting, to the proprietor
of the Steele, that he must have one franc a line
for his last romance, to be published in the feu-
illeton of that paper. "No," said the editor,
" but we will give you ten sous line; that's the
price we pay Dumas" Dumas! Well, If YOU
compare me with that negro man, good morning"
A few days after Bazac and Dumas met in the
green room of the Porte St.. Martin. sharp
dialogue ensued:
"Balxac. Monsieur Dumas, when am worn
out will take to writing plays.
"Dunas Then you would do well to begin at
once. .II
"Balzac If begin to- morrow morning, YOU
will be forgotten Tomorrow night
Here the actors interfered, as words might lead
to blows. The next day Balzac sat down to his
first play He produced several in succession, but
none obtained very fiattering success. One,
Pautie1s, was damned at the first representation.
La Mardtre, performed at Dumas's own theatre,
after it had passed from his hands, was more for
tunate, and will maintain place in the current
repertory. But his greatest dramatic work was
performed after his death You may remember,
| a a ayo. he cd
bankers and gentlemen of the Bourse, by Muca-
Diet, the Stock Jobber, played at the Gymnase. 1t
was suspended by the Minister of the Interior, but
was returned to the theatre without mutiatou
and ran one hundred and twenty nights in success
sion. AS dramatist, Balzac never fulfilled his
menace of beginning in the morning, and causing
Dumas to be forgotten by nightfal - D..
You remember that the Archbishop of Paris was
shot upon the barricades in june ls4s and that il
was not discovered who had fred the fatal shot,
The secret has just been developed, and the MUIR
derer, as the government journals call him. is to
be brought to trial. 1t seems that woman, who
In June lived near the spot where Mgr. Affre was
killed, was taken sick come weeks since, and was
admitted to the hospital of La salpetriere Find
ing herself upon the point of death, she sent for
sister of charity and told her that her conscence
was charged with political secret connected with
the events of I84S. She then said that she knew
the man who had killed the Archbishop A maeis-
trate was brought, and she stated what she knew
with full details The police instituted an inquiry
which resulted in the partial confirmation of her
revelation. The person she had designated was
retired tradesman; he has been arrested and lodged
in the military prison. He is to be brought to trial
at once on the charge of having taken part in the
insurrection of June, and having assassinated, or
helped assassinate, the Archbishop of Paris. ~
They smuggie Napoleon lie Petit into Switzer-
land in boxes marked groceries"
The Emperor, who has gone, from time to time,
into mourning for his dear brothers n.law and
cousins german, the reigning dukes of this and
the grand dukes of that principality, has now
cause for putting on black home. Count
Camerata, maitre des requetes in the Council of
State has blown his brains out. owing to disap.
pointment in love. He was the grandson of Eliza
Bonaparte, the sister of Napoleon 1st A bali at
the Tuileries, to have taken place on Saturday
night, was postponed in consequence The young
mans suicide was, beyond question, owing to the
Emperor's decree that no member of the imperial
family can marry without his consent
The Pope is certainly coming to France. He