New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-21


himself into relations with the genuine blood royal
of Europe, the Nephew Of his Un''e now pro-
po.es, it seems, 10 raise the dead TO help hun. IL
ia sff med that he il even now in negotiation Win
the Count do Cbambord and the Orleans Princes
for transfer Of the royal dust OF Charles A. aoa
Of Louis Philippe from GOritz and IRON heasA
Green 1--WE believe that is the suburoan resting
mace of the Citizen King) to the Church oil o'.
Denis, for centuries the Westminster ABBEY .,
tie buried ma;esties of France. That no Shouid
have made advances of this nature Ii hkeP
enough; but it seems very improbable that Henry
Y. would choose tn enter into any correspondence
with tho brieand who has usurped bis Legitimate
throne On apy such point of Dosihumous poll'eness
>. this. ard still less that the Orleans Princes
sbould have any dealings with the man who has
flebcd their private patrmoBy as well as the lib
critics Of The people and the crown of their father.
That were 10, merely shame and diShonor, but an
Infinite loss We imagine old Charles Dix and the
pear.iacsd monarch of the Three Days would
rather sta, where they are till the Day o Juds-
meut than receive the empty honors of the tomb at
the hands Of this spurious nephew Of detested ad-
yeniurer. But il he has dore anything OF the
Mind, it i. probably with characteristic indrectiOn,
10 that no rebuff should ever come to light
But suppose il all true, and that the negotiation
shall succeed, how will it be ever possible to settle
the point Of precedency among the dead but scep-
tered sovereigns that i'll encounter one another IN
those sepnlchral crypts ? Louis XVIII, whose
yasncss bas been waiting at the door OF the royal
vault ever since 1924 for the arrival of lis success
sor, then 70 be hoisled by pulles into his sepul-
chre MS he used to be into his carriage when no was
alive be would be content, Of course, to give way
TO his royal brother, the someime Count dArtols.
Bul would the Majesty of the Ordoi nances consent
to acknowledge the legitimate title of his cousin of
the Bsrrcades by making way for him On the low
est step of that subterraneun staircase? And how
would the question of antecedency be arranged
between him. 80 well as his predecessor, aud the
oresr distul Der Of dyDasties who is even nOw rest
ing beneath the dome Of the lnyaides, Oh his way
from the Willows to 81. Denis, until his mansion
is made ready for him theIe' 1t is not of go much
consequence about poor old Jerome, who once
reienpd over the Westphaan boars, as he never
was of much consequence, any way. Only he
will arrive there first Of a and will have to be &C
comnodated before any of them, and par lie drois
des PRIMERS renus-f!st come, first served-he
might get the best lodging, the suggest l!iog, in
that abbey But then to be sure, though TO,
Eaintoni, it was not Of France, a0d "moa I'M
"bfc,ile" ~ his mother used affectonatey to dis
tinguish him among her family of kings, may be
put quietly on ole side without complcating the
embarrassments of his betters.
To be sure, there is no need of quarreling
There is room enough. The Convention took care
of that in 1893. From Dagobert down to the little
daupbn, the eldest son of Louis XVI. who was
for innate enough TO die in 1885, aoont six weeks
before the taking of the BasliIe, leaving his mel
apchoy honors to the poor little Louis XVII, they
were all pitched hieglsdy-pggiedy into trench
dug for the purpose, and covered up ~ithquck lme.
Napoleon, in 1906, decreed that the Church of st.
Denis should be consecrated to the seputure of
the emperors But DO one OF lis race has yet oc-
cupied tie chambers prepared for them, excepting
the elder brother Of this Louis Napoleon, son of
Louis and Hortensc, called the Gsand-Duke de
Berg wAom his uncle the Emperor intended Tor
his heIr, beir 9 popularity believed to hold nearer
than an ayuLcular relation to the child in case he
died without son. From 1903 to the Restoration
in lSI4 the little GrandDuke had solitary posses
81, Of the once populous domain of death but al
most the first act Of the restored family was to
turn The infant usurper out Of his quarters, and
reeaate him to the vulgar cemetery without
Their next was to seek for what years and quick
lime had left of the bones Of Louis xvi. whom
they found with his head between his legs, and of
Marie Antonette. The solemnty of their trans
poration to St. Denis made show for Paris on
the 2lst Of Janua y 1874 and they were deposited
in the ancestral vaults the Queen within, aud the
King at the door awaiting his successor. They
were in search of that successor the unhappy boy
hing, Louis XVII, in the Cemetery of st. Margue-
rite, in the FaubOurg ST. Antoine, at the very mo-
nent henNapoepn swept them all out of the coun-
try for the space of Hundred Days, and it never
vas renewed after their second return. Louis
XVI, therefore, renamed at the door until LOUIS
XVIII. bowed him in to his chamber of rest, TAX
ing his place, where he stays to this day. We be-
leye the Duke de Berr, the father Of the Count
dc Cbambord lies there too, and that makes up
the luIl number of the present tenants of those
dark abOdes
We should hardly think that "true princes"
Ike the Count de- Chambord and the Count de
Paris, would agree to permit their respective
erurdsires, who held their places in life BY the
Grace of Gcd, TO hold them in death BY the Grace
oi Bonaparie. Ii would look too much as If they
despajred of ever coming by their own again
which they certainly have no particular reason to