Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-29
EVENING STAR.
The Empress Eugenia and Mrs. Toward.

The Empress Eugenia and MIRA. coward.
The Partisan correspondent of the
Philadelphia Register, of the 9th instant,
gives the following French moroccan. IS
The Paris papers by this week s steamer
will announce to you the great affection
which has just befallen the Imperial
family; isle grand malheur qui Went de
frapper la famillie imperiale'') but, for
the very good reason that they dare not,
they will not tell you of the circumstances
which led to this misfortune. You and
yGUr readers perhaps will scarcely credit
Wat [ relate, but | assure you that here
it IS not only believed, but Feuched for
bypersons whose varacity it is impossible
to doubt. In the saloons, in the, clubs,
in the ateliers, nothing is talked Of; and
the police is daily arresting persons i'm
prudent enough to discuss the matter in
the streets. You are probab bly, aware that
a few days before his marriage, Louis
Napoleon dismissed Mrs. Howard, the
mother of his three little girls, and she
took refuge in England. He had offered
her residence and pension IN France,
but this she refused. Two weeks ago,
she returned to Paris, on business, proba-
bly,, though many say she came by the
Emperor's request. Be that as it may
the Empress heard of her arrival, and
was higly indignant that she should have
been allowed to enter France. 81; -ase.
Thereupon a conugal Caudle scene, at
the end of which her Majesty declared that
if she met Mrs. Howard, she would punish
her for her presumption, and give her a
lesson which she would remember. His
Majesty merely shrugged his shoulders at
this threat, doubtless thinking it nsthing
more than an ebullition Of words which
would be forgotten with the excitement
which caused it. He was too confident,
and the Empress was as good as her
promise. The very next day, while riding
in the Bots de Boulogne on her spirited
Andalusian, and accompanied by her
ladies and grooms, she was stopped in a
hy-road by a carriage. At first the En-
pres was about to turn aside, and let the
carriage pass but, glarcing at its occu-
pant, she recognized hrs. Howard, and,
determining not to give her the road, she
refined up her horse, and waited for the
carriage to turn ont of the way. But
Mrs. Howard had recognized her rival
also, and calling up her pride and spirit, she
ordered her coacllman not to give the road.
A few words were exchanged betw cen
the latter and the Empress attendants,
but he refused to go contrary to his
orders. After a moments pause, during
which the two ladies .'made big eyes, at
each other, the Empress galloped to the
side of the carriage, and, in most i'm
polite manner, struck Mrs. Howard with
her riding-whip. The other raised her
parasol, and, before the attendants could
Interfere, a regular battle began between
the whip and the parasol, and the tongues
of the owners: until the whip, being the
stronger of the two, broke the parasol,
and Mrs. Howard sank back, fainting, on
the carriage cushions, her toilette and
eurIs in a deplorable state. The En-
press, who had received no visible damage,
gave triumphant little laugh, struck
her spur into her horses side and gal
Hoped away, followed by her suite, every
memDer OF WHICH was supplied Dy Tie
scene which they had been forced to
witness.
But crowd had already collected, and
a few gems d'armes coming up, Mrs. How
ard was carried into house near bv,
where her wounds-for the lash had left
more. than one mark upon her face and
hands-were dressed, and the disorder of
her toilet repaired-and, when the idlers
had all departed, she repaired to Paris,
where she is still quite i'll. As to the
Empress, she finished her ride, and re-
turned to the Tuilleries, as if nothing had
happened; but thatvery night MIR. Dubois,
who had received the appointment of &C.
coucher to lIer Majesty only a few days
before, was sent for, and forty eight hours
afterwards the Empress became so unwell
that there was longer any doubt that
Louis Napoleon's hopes of an heir were
going to be destroyed. The matter was,
as much as possible, kept secret, and Her
Majesty was reported as merely suffering
under a slight indisposition. But the
whole city was already talking of the
scene in the Bots de Boulogne, and the
result of the indisposition was anticipated
several days before it actually took place.
On Friday last the Empress's life was in
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