The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-03

| y Marquis de San Jago were sighing at her
feet More than once, if rumor be true. did
he muster up courage to join the select circle,
of her admirers, and strive to attract her no
tiee by the intellectual power he could display
in conversation; bnt there was mildness in
her manner and lady-ike indifference in her
smile, which soon repelled his advances
Five years had elapsed. The quondam
adventurer was seated on purple throne and
surrounded by the insignia of imperial state
around him stood the greatest personages Of
France, and the representatives of more thar
one of the leading powers of Europe. The
Countess Of Teba, whose maturefl but unim.
paired beauty eclpsed the fairest ornaments
OF the French court stood before him. lie
beckoned her to seat, and his master Of cere-
monies, with courtly suavity directed her
mother, to stand behind the chair. We can
well conceive the ill-disguised exutation with
which the bride, who, FIVE wears before
had affected an air of well bred fatigue at NJ.
Bonaparte's attentions, pronounced to the
world: II declare that | take his Majesty,
Napoleon Ill, here present, in marriage" We
can form tolerably fair estimate of the as
founding change which the last five years
have produced in the Countess de Mentijo's
feelings, by contrasting her disdainful recog-
mton OF her humble acquaintance in London,
with the triumphant smile she wore as she
stood en- his left at his marriage. Nor is the
disparity between the timid suitor of ls4S and
the proudshusband of 1853, less Marked
Neither the old Court of the Bourbons, nor
the former imperial regime, ever furnished
Paris with more imposing spectacle than
the ceremony at Notre Dame. Splendid,
equipages, jewelled toilets, squadrons Of horse,
regiments of infantry, ancient mobiles, venera-
bic prelates and an innumerable concourse of
people, combined to stamp the recollection of
the day on the minds of the nation. The
country was in whirl of excitement The
Emperors marriage was national tete. The
departments We'd with each other in fulsome
congratulation. The city Of Paris offered the
bride necklace worth 100000 francs. Four
thousand prisoners were graciously restored to
liberty, and vague hints of a more friendly
treatment of the Orleans family were throV@r
out by the court. Rumor was pregnant with
prophecies of the auspicious results Of the
marriage. Commercial men saw in it a guar
anty of peace; respectable citizens, barrier
to revolution; the arts, new era of fostering
care; society, pledge of honor, morality, and
virtue. France hailed with transports an en-
press of pebian blood and even England
applauded the monarch who had the courage
to obey the dictates of his feelings, and boast
to Europe that he was pdrgena.
All this excitement was created by the an
nouncement that the little Frenchman who,
five years before, had been cut by his aristo-
cratic acquaintance, and beseiged by his tai
lor and boot maker in his lodging in Jermyn
street, had resolved to love his neighhors, and
taken unto himself wife.
Few romances posses such a thrilling inter-
est as the biographies of the rulers OF France
during the nineteenth century. He would be
a bold writer who would venture to portray
such startling vicissitudes in a work of fiction.
A Young Corsican rises from lieutenancy in
the artillery to the command Of the army in
italy, and thence to the Consulship and the
Empire. For few years the world is at his
S, feet. Power, fame money, popularity over
whelm him. A single reverse turns the
tide he falls-and dies miserable captive
on a barren rock.
Louis XVIII, was in the meridian Of life
when the revolution drove him from his
native land. A helpless, imbecie wandereI
through Europe for many years-now recog
nized as king by the Gar, now ordered tc
leave the Russian territories in week-ex
peIled ANONYMOUSLY from Warsaw, and re
ceived with more pity than sympathy in Eng
L. LII 1n,,,l- tba nttfp pf tn thf
dregs before fortune replaced on the throne O
o France, and it was but just that he should die
in peace.
Charles x. bore in his youth no slight re
of semblance to the Regent whose hcentiou'
ry pleasures he shared. The revolution convert
ID ed the debauchee into bigot. Had he no
le become king he might have made good IN
or ouisitor. Raised him from the confessional t.
ID the throne his new dignity sat awkwardly up
5; on him; he tempted fate for SIX years, anC
It when folly, obstinacy, tyranny had wrough
le their own cure, he embraced once more, witt
st creditable equanimity, the calling for which
e. nature had designed him, and died in sack
er cloth at Edinburgh.
ul On Louis Philippe the trials of his youti
u produced beneficial results. lie proved hlm
IN self a good soldier, sound counsellor, anf
at even a successful school master. conyenien
le forgetfulness of principle crowned him tn
a citizen king" and for eighteen years he en-
loved peace, prosperity, and the general esteem
/ of the world These but delay the fatal blow
re his time come, and his last hours were passet
a in poverty at Claremont-
r IIalf the career of Napoleon Ill. is spent
n, He has travelled and learnt mncb, suffered
l. want. imprisonment, and contumely; he
he now on the pinnacle Of greatness. who shal
n prophetically complete the unfinished sketch
1e rz- Miss Gould, the poetess, gives iudl