The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-11-28
Paris GOSain.

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An encounter had become necessary, and
yet each party seeks to avoid it before the
| meeting OF the Chambers. The Orleanists
! stand between the two, and prevent too
near an approach, The gradual advance
OF this party has become matter of dread
%I Soth to Bonapartists and Republicans
Names well known in the Orleans interest
are mounting gradually even to the very
steps OF the throne, and blocking up the
way, so that the "devoted ones" belonging
TO the Bonapartists cannot approach.-I
With Thiers to speak in the Chamber, and
6uizot to prompt behind the scenes, the
Revue des Deux Mondes to prepare the
way for the arrival of the Comte de Paris,
and Queen Christina to back up the inter-
ests of the Due de Montpensir, the partv
may be said to be pretty well got upon its
feet again. Many others, Eugene Pelle-
tan $, VINO Is pronounced as incapacitated
| for election by his condemnation to two
years imprisonment. He will be replaced
| oy Renan, so says report. Renan, like
Nadar, has become the man of the olay.-i
His Life of Jesus has made him popular
with one half the world on account of the
unpopularity it has created with the other;
but he will always be regarded as foasr
trere by the Republicans; and the Church
party affect to welcome him with great sat
lsfaction, as being of the greatest use in
disgusting the right-thinking portion of
the community with all unbelief and inn
piety, and in fixing in the way of the Cos
pei many mind which was beginning to
waver in its faith. 1t seems that Theirs
and Guizot have had many interviews.
Some otficious person was condoling with
the latter, the other day, for. not having
been elected like cOntrerc, but the worn
out statesman gave resume of his ex peri
ence which completely silenced ali COM
enough good sense and not too much wit
no public obligation acquired by place or
preferment--no private responsibility in
Cured by family ties-a fortune small but
Independent, a house in the country, old
books with new binding, wide hearth
and good log-fire."
Such in the summary of happiness dis
covered by the once powerful and ponder
Gus old proser, now evidently become the
most finished of egotists. Theirs, on
the contrary, grown more brisk and snap
pish with age tucks up his trowsers to run
| the quicker into the enemy's camp, wipes
his spectacles to see more clearly the dOdg-
| ings and maneuvers of the adverse COM
manders, and turns back his wristbands to
be better prepared for the game of tisticuffs.
The Emperor breads him greatly, and is
growing so exciting over the anticipation
OF strife and contention in the new Cham
| Der, that he has become restless and unea-
sy as though he were a mere novice in the
art of defense. He rushes from st. Cloud
| ~ TWICE. OF tUTee lllileS III
| the course OF the day; and the badauds of
Paris, who dearly love a spectacle gratis,
behold with amazement and delight the
frequent twisting and lowering of the flag
on the Pavilion de fHorloge, and specu-
late with the we'll known wisdom of cock
neys on the cares of State which necesitate
this hurrying to and fro The objections
raised to Pelletan, and the admission of
| Lavertujon in room of Cure Bordeaux,
have induced an examination into the val
! idity Of more elections than one. Thus
we have serious objections brought against
Morny, who holding place under Govern
ment, has no right to place in the Chamber.
This is a tender point with Emperor, who,
as he grows older, clings with greater affec-
tion and relies with greater confidence on
every member of his family. Billaults
death affected him doubtly from the COM
plete security felt in his capacity as Minis
ter ofState, and in that of near relationship
bearing the same affinity of blood toward
King Jerome as that which binds Vale
wski to the great Napoleon.
There is no absurdity, however broad or
stupid or impossible, which has not been
suggested by gossip to account for the
prolonged absence of the Empress. The
utter ignorance of traditional etiquette
which has caused her while travelling as
Countess de Pierrefonds, to receive royal
| honOrs at Madrid, caused the old FaubOurg
st. Germain to grind its false teeth in sar-
castle laughter, and shake its false curls in
affected merriment. So many motives
have been assigned to this Journey to
right one. Some people still adhere to the
impossibility of acceptance of the crown
of Mexico on the part of the Archduke
Macmillan, and the consequent necessity
of being provided with substitute before
the monarchial ardor of the Mexican No
f,1,l oh 1nI ,Lpfif if,,tn
was already suggested in the person of
i Don Juan, unacceptable on any terms by
the Mexican people from the single cir
cumstance of his being a Spaniard. Then
why choose him? you will say. Because
the very impossibility of taking any other
will suggest the propriety of naming a
French prince after ALL and, therefore, was
the Princess Anna Murat of the party,
whose beauty was destined to seduce all
hearts, and render the idea of Prince Mu-
rats ascension to the throne of Mexico IA
miliar to every mind. Another reason for
the journey is very simple. the finding a
husband for this very Princess Anna, who,
like the Princess Cont, mentioned by
Saint Simon as catching many lovers but
retaining none-alternately given to the
| Prince Of Orange, to the King of Portugal
to the Duo de Grammont Caderousse, and,
at last to the Due de Morny. BY remain
ing single, she destroys at q single blow
press of peculiar ability in match making.
The last reason of the journey, however, is
more natural and feminine than any
which have gone before. Her Majesty
had never been ''lucky" enough to en-
counter the Queen of Spain since the pro-
motion from the Montijo salon, at Caraman-
chet, to the green boudoir, all crystal and
frosted silver, at the Tuileries. The re-
serve maintained by the Bourbon Queen
Isabella toward the upstart Empress of the
French, had been a terrible heartsore to
the latter, from the very same feeling
which caused the farmers wife in "Speed
the Plough" to grieve for the good opinion
of Mrs. Grundy, although in the possession
of every other blessing, simply because
belonging to the same village and all the
better worth growing over. So the lovely
and lively Eugene, greatly disappointed at
the failure of the promised hope of seeing
the Queen at Biarritz, resolved to put an
end to the miserable shuffiing of the Span
ish Court, and beard the lion in his den by
showing herself at Madrid. The adventure
was thonght so adventurous, even for the
wife of ''the adventurer,' as the Emperor
is still called in Bourbon circles, that it
oil f0 M1laSfV.