Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-03-14

famous for, had done your duty, and taken
little trouble in the matter, my reception would
have been very different" Pardon me,
replied the Minister, with blanched cheek and
quivering lips, eff l had not done my duty,
and taken a little trouble in the matter,
your Imperial Highnesss reception would
have been very different indeed" Where
upon, Plon-Plon, forgetful of the presence
of Imperial authority, was so carried away
by passion at what he persists in calling
"the impertinent speech" of the Minister, that,
Selling the inkstand from the table, he was
about to dash it at the offenders head, when
his arm was arrested by his Imperial cousin,
who held him fast until his passion had subsid-
ed, and Delangle on a sign from the imperial
ordainer, had gone grinning from the room. 1t
is from this scene that dates the fit of govt
with which his Majesty had been seized, and
which, beginning by lumbago, is said to have
nailed him to the chair in which he was seat
ed, and which he was unable to leave without
assistance.
The whole world agrees, however, that the
Emperor's reign is over, and that another SOW
ereign is set up in his stead. The disease of
which Louis Bonaparte laid the foundation by
his life in London, is beginning to claim its
never-failing rights in Napoleon Ill. How of
ten has he said to the DOCTOR whose sole care
is considered as awaiting in this complaint, that
the race was running between three Ofthe best
racers who ever started forward together.
Prince Belgioso was one of the steeple-chaSers,
and ever since his death the Emperor, whose
symptoms are exactly the same as those ex-
hibited by the Prince, has displayed a doubt,
an uneasiness, and, above all, want of conf
dence in his medical advisers, which is said to
give much to think of to those about his per-
son. Under these circumstances, the fit of
govt was considered most favorable, but the
heaviness and sleepy Indifference which render
him so unfit for business and have assailed him
ever since his visit to Plombieres, still continue,
and render us rather shaky, likewise, in our
plans and projects for the future. Emile Gil
rardin is once more at the head of affairs, and
it is not an agreeable reflection for the Emper-
or to wake now and then from his seepiness,
and find that he has been nothing more than
the cat's-paw to his more prudent cousin.
One consolation, amid all this annoyance,
exists, however, even for the devoted party at
the Tuileries. There seems to have sprung
up tyrant to tyranize over this tyrant; and
the sudden setting to rights and reorganization
Of the domestic affairs of the Palais Royal af-
ford the only subjects of amusement of the
Imperial party. Who would have thought
that even fat old Jerome would have to sub
NIT to the school room arrangements of the
Princess Clotilde, who, sweeping the apart
insists upon the instant departure of Madame
B., who, having accompanied Jerome from
Florence, where, for years, she had been all in
all to the old man, has nestled snugly in the
Paais Royale, and transformed the boudoirs
and saloons of Egalite into the most splendid
retreat ever devised by Calypso, or Aspasia,
Mad lie de Lyon, for the dazzlement of blink
ing old eyes like those of jerome. Not more
than three months ago much scandal was oc-
casioned by the refurnishing of these apart
ments in the Palais Royal, and hints were
thrown out concerning the white velvet car.
pets and white satin curtains, with their bull
lion fringe which, ordered by Madame B.,
were some time on view at the makers, which
all Paris, although boiling with rage and bitter
III expression, rushed to see Notwithstanding
1t seems that the Princess Clotilde insists up
on reformation in that identical wing of the
building, and backed by her governess, propos-
es a barring out of the fair Forentine, in
spite of the representations made concerning
the obligations owed to the lady, whose fortune
in Florence was placed with the greatest gen
crosby at the disposal of the ex-King, who
did not scruple to avail himself of it in time of
need. Compensation is proposed by the little
Princess,-an annuity settlement-any-
thing,-but out the Florentine must go at once;
and Prince Napoleon stands by and shakes his
fist at the Tuilleries, as he curses the necessity
which has already led to intimacy close enough
to make his little wife SO soon acquainted with
the sore place in the arrangements of the
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