Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1870-08-26

The situation of the Emperor has
now become 50 serious that the world
is actively specializing rs TO his success
sor. 1t Goes not appear that France as
yet Is ripe for "A republic, and proba-
bilities point toward the restoration
of the house of Orleans. One month
ago the future of that house seemed
hopeless. To-day, so wonderful are the
changes wrought by n single battle,
it has fair chance Of grasping one OF
the most brilliant prizes i'm Europe.
The Orleans branch of the Bourbon
family has held for many generations
a distinguished place in French histo-
ry, aud more than once within the
last hundred years, it has seemed to
be the best hope OF the nation. Its
representatives have generally cher
ished, on at least professed, Il greater
respect for popular rights and cOnsti-
tutlonal theories Of government than
the el'lcr line of the family, have
ranged themselves among the liberal
mouarchists whose ambition il is to
accommodate obsolete titles and eXplO-
ded political principles with the prog
ress of modern thought and an enlarg-
ed scope OF individual freedom. Since
the time of Philippe, the fifth duke of
y /.
and the father of Louis Philippe. the
popular policy of thc family has been
marked. Duke Philippe, however,
was only an ambitious dcmagogue
who assumed the name of Philip Euual-
ity during the storm of the Revolution,
and tisgusted even the most extreme
Democrats 10y voting for the eNecu-
ton of his royal cousin. Louis Phil
ippe, If not a great, was wcll-meauing
king, under whom the French people
wer5 upon the whole happier and freer
than they have ever been since. cXceDt
for few months under the Repubii-
can regime of 1913. The Duke of Or
leans, eldest son of Louis Philippe.
who was killed during his fathers
reign by being thrown from his car
riagc, was young man of many per-
sonal virtues and accomplishments
and great popularity, and a soldier of
some distinction. The present head
of tie family, the Count Of Paris. is
his son hy the estiHablc Louise Eliza
beth Of Duchess Helene Mccklenburg-
Schweriu who died in exile near Lon
don in 1855
Tho Count Of Paris is now So years
Of age. He has Travelled n great deal
i'm various parts of the world, has giv-
en- considerable attention 10 literature.
publishing narratives Of travel and es-
says on the politics aud social customs
of England iwhcre he has-his resi-
dence), and in the early part of our
last war served with his Younger broth
er, the Duke of Charities, on the staff
of Gen. Mcclellan in the Yorktown
peninsula. Both the young Princes
made n very favorable IMPRESSION in
America. The Count of Paris is lnur-
ried to Il daughter Of the Dnkc of
MontpcnsiCr; the Duke of Chartres TO
a daughter of Prince de Joinvolle.
They nu,h offered there service, TO Ma
poleon Mt the outbreak OF the present
war, but we believe they were not ac-
ceptcd.
The principal other representatives
OF the Orleans family are the second,
third, forth, and fifth SONS OF Louis
Philippe, unclcs of the two young men
just mentioned. The second son is the
Duke of Nemours, So years old: under
Louis Philippe he held several impor-
ant military commands, especially i'm
the campaigns against Abd-cl-Kader.
He was chosen King of the Balrians
i'm 1881, and was proposed for King Of
Greece, but his father would not per-
nit him to accept either dignity. He
is the father of Count d'Eu, theson-in-
law and general of the Emperor OF
Brazil. The third son Of Louis Phil
ippe is the Prince de Joinvil!e, 52years
Old In his fathers time naval COM
mauder of repute, remembered espcci-
ally for his services in Mexico. The
fourth is the Duke of Aumale, aged II,
who served in Algeria under Bugeaud
| and Baraguey d'Hilliers, rose to be a
Marshal of France, and had the glory
at last of receiving Abd-el-Kaderis
surrender The fifth son is the Duke
of Montpensicr, candidate for the
throne of Spain. Since 1913, all the
family except the last named have liv-
cd in England. All except Montpen.
| sier have dabbled more or less in liter
ature, all have led reputable lives, so
far as the world at large is informed,
and all are 20 well provided with Off
spring that if fortune should restore
them to the Tuileries, France need he
under no apprehension Of the dynasty's
ever dying out.-N y. Tribune.