The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-05-25
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WEDN EsD8Y MORNING.......-.....n AY Is. 1859.
+ @ r E / G N n E w S.
The mails by the Vanderbilt bring no news of
importance. The following, however, are inter-
TIE REGENCY IL FRANCE,

| esting portions of her news
| TIE REGENCY IN FRANCE
The Monteur Of yesterdsy pubIishes the follow.
| ing Imperial decree:
| Napoleon. by the grace of God and the national
| will, Emperor Of the French, to all present and
| fature greeting:
"Wishing to give to our beloved wife, the En-
| press, the marks OF high confidence We place iD
| her,
And considering that it IL our intention to as
| sumo the command of the army of Italy, we have
resolved to confer, as confer by these presents
upon our well beloved wife. the press the title
of Regent. TO exercise the functions of the same
| during our absence, in conformity with in
| struc,ions ard oUr orders, snch shall have
made known in tho General Order of the service
| which We shall establish, and which shall be in
| scrbed 10 the Great Book Of the State.
! "Let 1t be understood that cognizance shall be
given 10 uncle Prince Jerome to the Presiden,s
| of the great bodies Of the State, to the members
| OF PrivJ Council and to the Ministers. OF such
orders and instructions; and that in no Gao
he Empress devate from their tenor in the Cxer.
| else of the functions Of Regent.
| "lt is our wish that the Empress should pre-
| side In cur name, at the PTvy Council and at the
| Council of Ministers However it is not our in-
| tentiou that the Empress Regent should authorz
by her signature, the pronlulgatiJu OF any SsRouS
consutUr or any law Of the State other than those
which actually pending before the Senate, tho
Legislative Body snd the Counc! Of referring
rsclves in this respec: the orders and iua,ruc-
! tions above mentioned
| ave charge our Minister of State to give COM
muucatiou of the present letters patent to the
| Senate, which will have them registered, and to
our Keeper OF the Seals Minister OF Justice, who
siI have them Published In the Bulletin des Lois.
'Given at the Palace of the Tuileries this 81 of
| May. 1859. NAPOLEON.
| (Counsersgned) "AcHILLE FoULD,
"Minister of State"
The Moniteur has the following:
During the time the Emperor will be with the
army, his Cabinet, maintaining its actual organi-
cation will perform its functions at Paris as bth-
erto All petitions relative to private or collective
interests, or to propositions of general interest,
must therefore be addressed to the Emperor at
Paris, aud not 10 his headquarters"
TIE AUSTRIAN CAVALRY.
No Power can boast such a body of cavalry as
Austria. 1t iseuormous in number. The horses
are excellent, well bred. handy, active and cour-
ageous The men are bold riders coed swords
men, and better still, are the right weight, ard
are recruited 10 great part from two of the great
eat equestrian nations in the world, the Poles and
IIurgarians. In her service the moustrosity, SO
cften witnessed in France, of a giant of two huns
dred pounds weight, laden with arms and accout.
rements astrde Of beast not much bigger than
himself, is never witnessed. In short, the AUS
triau uhlan or hussar, is the model light cavalry
man Of the word-smalI, light, wiry, active, inds
fatigable rider from bis cradle, his bride in his
heels, and his hand, eye, and heart en- his ssbrs
indefatigable Ia the march, swift in the charge
everywhere by turns and nowhere long. 1t may
be almost kalu tudt tNe uOS
that the Turkish spah is thing of the past, 10 the
only light cavalry In fact the only cavalry in exs-
tence. His cuts are as fatal and sure as other
mems thrusts. His horse is part Of himself; rid
ing or fighting arc his pastines. 10 former days
he was the glory aud boast of the Austrian army.
Those gay swarms of hardy little men which it
| shot from its sides on the march were its surest
| aids in victory, its best safeguards in defeat.
this however, goes down before the Enfeld
| rife aud the Armstrong gun. Let the horse be
ever 30 swift, the sabre sharp, or the ri-
der ever SO bold the copical ball is too much for
him. charge of cavalry upon body of proper
y armed infantry bids fair to be hencefor ward i'm
possible. Two hundred yards has been fixed by
the best authority as the proper charging dis
| tance, and in bysgone days it was only at two
hundred yards that the fire OF a square began TO
tell and saddles to be emptied. Butnow--a.days
the iron rain patters on the horsemen before they
get within half mile OF the foe. Ii they q7ick-
their pace to close, the msd3es. charge will not
bring drsgoon horse to the bsyonet in less than
ii rec inmates. when he arrives"-if no arrives
We should say; for even in traversipg eight hun
dred yards the top of his speed, he receives half
a Dc zen voiieys from practced sharpshooters. To
send cavalry on such service Will, we may safely
predict, henceforward be considered madness The
foot soldier has a swifter messenger in his car
toucbe box than the feetest husssr, aud Austria
losses her most efficient weapon.
DEPARTURE OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON.
[By Submarine Telegraph
PARIS, Tuesday, May 10 The Emperor took his
departure this evening at o'clGck. lie arrived NJ
tho station of the Lyons Railway escorted by the
Cent Gardss. The crowd was immense and the
cheering very lively. The whole Of the Fsubourg
st. Antoine was on foot, aud the Emperor was
chsered along the whole route.
An enormous CROW was collected in the Rue de
Rivol Numerous persons belonging to the Court,
aud others on q footing OF intimacy with His Ma
iesty awaited the arrival of their Imperial High
nesses at the Lyons Railway station.
The Empress accompanies the Emperor as far as
Montereau.
FUNERAL OF BARON HUMBOLDT.
BERLIN, Tuesday, May 10, Q A. M-The solemn
funeral procession of Alexander Won Humboldt 10
pow on it's way to the Cathedral. All that repre-
sents science art, and intelligence in Berlin joins
in tho procession. Three ChamberlsiDs In gold
costume, bearing ths orders Of the iilustrious de-
ceased, precede the funeral car which 10 drawn oy
six horses from the royal stables Upon the car 10
8 simple uncovered coffin Of oak, adorned WITH
flowers aud laurel On either side OF the car are
students, bearing green palm braneher
liGe OF carriages Of immense length closes
the procession. The Prince Regent and all the
Princes and Princesses are assembled In the Ca.
thedral, awaiting the arrival of the great philos.
ophers mortal remains mournful aspect
oyerspresds the whole town.
ASHAMED BUT NOT AFRAID.
At 8 O'Clock on the 81 Instant, during Q rain
storm, soldier of the Seyenteenth Regiment Of
the Line, was seen to mount the Pout dc Concord
parapet. Paris, and, sccoutered a. he was, plunge
head foremost, knspsack and all, into the Seine
Boitmsn put on to the rescue, and, after sinking