Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-08-18
THE HOUSE OF ORLEANS.
Liberal MOnarchfsts Who would
Like 10 Relieve Napoleon.

From the New York Tribune.l
The situation of the Emperor has now
become so serious that the world is act
lively speculatipg as to his successor. 1t
does not appear that France as yet is
ripe for republic, and probabilities
point toward the restoration OF the house
Of Orleans. One month ago the future
If that house seemed hopeless. To-day,
90 wonderful are the changes wrought
by single battle, it has a fair chance of
graspiug one of the most brilliant prizes
in Europe.
The Orleans branch of the Bourbon
family has held for many generations a
distinguished place in French history,
and more than once, within the last
hundred years, it has seemed TO be the
best hope of the nation. Its represen-
tatives have generally cherished, or at
least protested, greater respect for
popular rights and constitutional theo-
ries of government than the elder line
of the family, and have ranged them
selves among the liberal monarchists
whose ambition it is to accommodate
obsolete titles and exploded political
principles with the progress of modern
thought, and an enlarged scope of indi-
vidual freedom. Since the time of
Philippe. the fifth duke of the house,
the cousin of Louis XVI, and the father
of Louis Philippe, the popular policy of
the family has been marked. Duke
Philippe, however, was only an
ambitious demagogue who assumed
the name of Philip Equality during the
storm of the Revolution, and Disguised
even the most extreme Democrats by
voting for the execution of his royal
cousin. Louis Philippe, if not a great,
was a well-meaning king, under whom
the French people we're upon the whole
happier and freer than they have ever
been since, except for few months un--
der the Republican regime of ls4S; The
Duke of Orleans, eldest son Of Louis
Philippe, who was killed during his ia
ther's reign by being thrown from his
fathers carriage, was young man OF
many personal virtues and accomplish
ments and great popularity, and soldier
of some distinction. The present head
of the family, the Count of Paris, is his
son by the estimable Louise Elizabeth OF
Duchess Helene Neutrality-suspicious..
who died in exile near London IN 1855.
The Count of Paris is now 3S years of
age. He has travelled a great deal in
various parts of the world, has given con-
siderable attention to literature, publish
ing narratives of travel and essays on the
politics and social customs of England
lwhere he has his residence), and in the
early part of our last war served with
his young brother, the Duke of Chartres,
on the staff of General Mcclellan in the
Yorktown peninsula. Both the young
Princes made favorable impression in
America. The Count of Paris is mar
ried TO daughter of the Duke of Mont
penser; the Duke of Chartres to a daugh-
ter of Prince de Joinville, They both
offered their services TO Napoleon at the
outbreak of the present war, but we be-
lieve they were not accepted.
The principal other representatives Of
the Orleans family are the second, third,
fourth and fifth sons of Louis Philippe,
uneles of the two young men just men.
toned. The second son is the Duke Of
Nemours, So years old; under Louis
fnillppe Ue utiu Scftfdi IN pOhedhp iHitA
tary commands, especially in the cam
paigns against Abd-el-Kader. He was
chosen King of the Belgians In 1881, and
was proposed for King of Greece, but his
father would not permit him to accept
either dignity. He is the father Of Count
d'Eu, the son-iu-law and general Of the
Emperor Of Brazil. The third son
of Louis Philippe Is the Prince de
Joinyille, 81 years old, in his fathers
time o naval commander of repute, re-
membered especially for his services in
Mexico. The fourth Is the Duke of Aq-
male, aged AZ, who served In Algeria
under Bugeaud and Baraguey d Killers,
rose TO be Marshal of France, and had
the glory at last o. receiving Abdel-ka-
ders surrender. The fifth son Is the
Duke Of Montpensier, candidate for the
throne Of Spain. Since 1913, all the
family except the last named have lived
in England. All except Montpensier
have dabbled more OF lass in literature,
all have lead reputable lives, 50 Ear a.
the world at large is informed, and all
are so well provided with offspring that,
if fortune should restors them to the
Tuileries, France need be under no ap-
prehension of the dynastys ever dying
ont