The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-12-18
Parisian Gossip about the Empress.

All gossip still centres on the Empress. 1t
certainly is hard TO conceive a wilder freak as
iar as appearances 60, and the details that
come over here, and ooZe out in to Paris Socie-
" through Belgium papers, are enough to
hsrrow up the outwardly decorous French
anu freeze the marrow in their homes. The
story goes not alone that (as the Times said J
Her Majesty left the London Bridge station in
cal g. but that in that identical vehicle her
MaJ-siy had to drive half over London before
she found suitable quarters In any hotel All
TINS Is commented on in the tone in which
the preparation CT some heinous crime would
oe spoken OF, and positively the Empresss
part Is very near being taken. 80 severely is
Partisan propriety shocked When one thinks
ofit all, II really seems 10 be almost natural,
and one cannot help recalling certain passages
OF he earlier days OF the poor Empress's I'm
periai state. and seeing how i'm patiently che
must have borne her splendid letters. After
she had been about fortnight the wife of
Louis Napoleon, she issued her orders to some
of the ladies around her that a walk should be
taken in the streets Of Paris A walk Imme-
dlateIy the g1dnde niarreSSe, Mad me la
Princess de'EssllDg made her appearance, say
Ing she was ready 10 accompany Her Majesty ty
any where in carria re. Al which the
iucky Empress exclaimed. some hat tartiy,
tnat she LPlther wanted carriage nor her
company This is the ans wer on record. Aud
mysteries and nervous attacks ensued, and the
onces 50 independent Mdlie. de Month, was
smut up, "fJr good and all, " as little children
term II, and /, II TO mediate on the recent
change in her habits OF life. For two years
this continued, until at last certain acts on the
ra't OF the Emperor gave his consort the right,
as she though, TO her liberty OF faction. Whilst
her lord was at Plom bieres, in 1856, the Empress
managed, most iDnocentiy, as we should
think. to aInuse herself in pleasant shooting,
DC, at st. Cloud, and ihereat no less solem a
parsonage than Marshal PelissIer took excep.
ton, aLd advised himself to lecture the En-.
press before al her household telling her the
French did not like such "eccen trlcilies,'' and
the poor Empress cried heartily, and said
she would not do so any more J" Then she
went TO see the "Foros," at St. Sebastine-a
pastime OF her own CountIy-and they were
fearfniiy scaudaliZed at that, these over deco~-
Gus French aud in short, on the whole, con-
sderIng the extremely unconven tioral mode
OF her unmarried life (prolonged 10 the age of
21,) The existence of the Empress Eugenie has
not, since she en- tered The Tuleries, been one
Of wholly unallyed satisfaction. Two years
ago, TO all this was added the intense and har-
rowiLg fear of assassination, and siuce the Or
sini attempt this has never entirely ceased.-
l have myself often talked with ladies of the
household, who every now and then admit
that the habtual life at the palace was dis
IY we'll known in a certain set that for weeks
together The unfortunate Empress had scarcely
done any thing but weep and declare tnat she
would set off for Spain, aud fly SO dangerous
a country as France. After all this can IL be
wondered at, that she should sire a little
freedom, q little amusement u little alb
sence OF the absurd etiq uette which it is one of
the Emperor's weakest points to try and sur
round himself! The Empress is now with a
cousin OF her husbands, who, it is true, has
for the last year ceased all friendly in tercourse
With her imperial relative on political grounds,
but who Will kindly receive and cherish the
very amiable lady who comes TO her from afar,
and who will try TO enable her to forget the
alarms and apprehensions of her splendid de-
mestic existence here.-Paris Co,resPoadsn. of
he Literary Gazette.