New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-27
PERSONAL

Prince Cl,m.nt Weto> sas Me.ttmict. whose
d. sth is aIrourced having o.c'fru o. '"' ''.''
ir.t vas esteemed tie most cello. e'"09 ~
Eure De, and lis COUNCILS st ore tins ooni0hV'" WV
European cabinet He wss born a. O>tienn on ,uo
18th # Msy l773, snd had Therefore comEs''ea H''
s6tb Year bcf,re he died. his ancestors hsc oe'n
distinguish 4 in the wars Of the Empire against the
Turks; Lis fsmily had produced more than one ei'c-
tor snd had flied the sIcbblshoprcs 81 M7yence h"',
Trryes; and his father, the Count MetteFnch, hai
oI,aired sntne reputation Gplomai aud a. tue
s,.o i.te # X 4uuliz AZ the aye OF 10 Mr'terhcn
entered the University of Strsstourg. trom "hloh.
two yesI. sfterssrd, lie removed Ia hsyencc IN oia"
"a COT rlete his s.udies II 1870 he msce his hr's
,ubc nnuea-suc a. aStcr Of ceremonies AZ the coro-
nation Of ii Emperor Leopold IL; AM IN TINS year
1884 after q short Wal, TO EuglSrd. he was attaohea
10 the Austrian Embassy at the Hague, IN 'he iloN
irg yeai marrying the heIEtss 81 las lame! l.''n'
Kauptz He first came into special notice 81 tne
Congress at Rassdt, where be represented tue west
phaEan nob li,v, sitter which be accompanies Doa".
S,aoon to St Petersburg. Ia 1901 he Fss appointed
Minister Mt the Coul OF DresiCn. aud IN 1913 pro-
ceeded a. Embass ador to Betin. Ater the peace ei
Prc,burg he was selected as the Austin sn Mhistsf Al
the Court Of Napoleon. in which position LIE
manifested 20 much ability that, when the
sar broke out in 1909, and be bad to return 70 Tue
Austrian Court which was then seeking reioge 10 'he
fortress of Coporn he Appointed to the Ministry
Of Foreign Affair." ~ the successor Of Coont StsSion.
During hrs tenure of that ofice he ccncoce the tdea
of A marriage between Napoleon and an Austrian
Archducbees a. mssns Of purchasing respite lot
the En- pire. lie conducted the negotiations Napo-
leon was accordingly divorced from josephine, ana
Me,ie,pich s:cortec Nsris Louise 70 Paris. In 1919
Metternch AZ raised to tie gnty CT Place o inc
Empire. In subsequent conferences aud treaties the
ues,v-crea..d Prince took prominent part an"
signed the famous treaty of Pan, On behsh OF AdTtr
He sisrw arr yu.ted Euglatd aud received the hon0r
of the oiploms of LII ID. from the University OF w
ford. Although Prince Metternich received ueoofa'
ito, from all the COults on the Cont NJ EuroPs,
he obtained zone from England. ~ the Congress "'
Vienna Prince Me.terncb, then in his 42d year, WAS
called upon to preside. In 1877, when me third
French nyolution overturned half the thrones OF
Europe, he was reluctantly compelled to retire from
bis position. He went 20 England, aud there re-
manned until 1851 when he returned to Vienna but he
WAS reyer AZ sn asked 10 undertake the cares OF office
In the July Kuckerbocker DR.. J. w. Palmers
book "Tto New and tire OH" ia condensed into ~
article. the illustrations containing easily recognized
pcllIblls VI thc daiNoi.
If Mr. Robert Bonner, editor and proprietor OF
The Ledgcr has weakness il is for rst-rate horse
He has just BE- ught tue famous rotter Lantern, with
his mate The price paid not kno acme say it is
sOo10 and others g. $50. We su'pect this is an ex-
sggeration though there can be no doubt that Lam
tern is the Lest double team hsrse il the country.
Among the passengers who left for llavre by the
Fulot on Saturday, was Mr.. T.. Masseras, the able
editor ofthe Courier des Etat Inns, who viii be alb
sent till the Autumn Hi place in the direction OF thsl
popular journal is supplied by NJ. de Trobrnand who
though better knoEn to its many readers in the bril-
liant and dashipg charge of the feule;on, Is no sran
ger to the mere stately columns and more powerful
movement Of the leading article.
Mr. Jas Il. Bingham who haselted The Wheel
ing Val Times for the last three years, has trans
f,r1ed bis interest to DIR. William J. Bates aud Geo
W. Sights.
An English missionary, now in Sumatra, lately
wrote home that he had the melancholy satisfaction
of examining the oven in which his predecessor was
cooked.