The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1854-01-21

JONATHAN on HIGH HEEIs-There has been
a diplomatic fashionable emeute in Madrid. be-
tween Mr.. Soule. Jr., ofthe American Legation,
and the Duke of Alba, which has thrown that
capital into a state of excitement. The Paris
correspondent of the London Chronicle, writing
on the 9th ult., gives the following particu-
lars -
Private letters from Madrid speak of an affair
which took place in the capital OH the fete day
OF St. Eugene, and which has not resulted in an
affair of honor. Saturday week being the tcte
day of st. Eugenie-a saint not often heard of
till Louis Napoleon chose to give her renown
by creating an empress of the same name-the
Marquis de Turgot the French ambassador of
Madrid gave a ball, which was attended by all
that is brilliant in the Spanish capital, in the
shape of nobility or diplomacy. Among the
guests were the Duke of Alba, the brother-in-
law of the Empress of the French. and Mr. Soule
the son ofthe newly appointed Minister of the
United States. In the course of the evening,
Mr. Soule, junior, while walking through the
ballroom with Mrs. Perry, the wife of the
United States Secretary of Legation. overheard
the Duke of Alba (whO has recently been in
Paris, and is therefore judge of ladies dress,
make some cOntemptuons remarks on the style
Of dress adopted by the wife of the American
Minister, mother of the young Soule. 1t ap-
pears that the lady had adopted costume
far that it covers her person up to the throat :
whereas the most approved fashion among the
Madrid damsels is to exhibit as many of the
graces conferred upon them by nature as come
within the bounds of decency. The remark of
the Duke was,-"There goes Mary of Burgun-
dy." Mr.. Soule, on hearing the contemptuOus
expression, left the lady with whom he was
walking, and going up to the duke informed
him gull etdit une canaiile. and accompanied
this piece of information with a-push. Great
excitement ensued and Mr. Soule's father hav-
subsequently addressed a challenge to the duke
which has not yet been accepted, the duke hav-
ing found it convenient to represent the whole
affair as politcal-which it certainly is, if the
dress of the American Minister'S wife was moi
strictly in fashion. At all events, no fighting
had taken place at the period when the des-
patches left &; but the affair was the topic OF
conversation everywhere, and the feeling is
that Jonathan's position was preferable to that
of the Hidalgo.
| BLACKwOOD ON RUSSIA AND TURKEY.--The last
number of Blackwood's Magazine devotes an
able article to Russia and Turkey. 1t express
ses the opinion that Turkey will, in the long
rum be found much more formidable as an Op-
ponent, than has been anticipated by the Gar
and it concludes with this remark:
:'Gladly indeed should we see Turkey main
tanning her frontier and battling her foe without
foreign aid. But this is too good result to
hope for, and it is, we fear, only too probable
that England and France will be forced to take
part in the fight If they be compelled reluct
antlv to draw the sword, it is to be hoped they
will not sheathe it until they have obtained 90
lid guarantees that Europe shall not again hav,
her tranquility disturbed on fimsy pretext
land for the eradication Of despot's ambition