New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-07
Az IMPERIAL ScANnAL-

THE REAL CAUSE Or THE EX-EMPRESS EUGENE
JOURNEY TO SCOrLAND--THE EX-EyPEROR's
INTRIGUE WITH MARGUERITE BELLASGER.
The following editorial from The Load0n
TiDes incident IN the private lie OF the cx En-
psror Napoleon, elected denial from the cxEmprcs-
Euscnic that she over contemplated divorce alleged
therein:
Toward ~ bitter end Of November $50 fhc Emprn
Eugenie startled the friends ard enemies OF the Bonn
paltc dynasty by private visit 10 mis- country. Al
tho eleventh hour, so far sy"r appearances a. 70 TO
Just IN time TO zee her OF ~ the Northern Railway
Terminus aud although 10 was given ont that the En
PIE - tourney had no other Object than 10 pend rev
WIS something 80 sudden and randesine in her dep'r
tJlc and IN nor style Of travelling that 1T could not id
5nt 'n nan G', o mcncrs 81 Tie French En-
bas-y in London, whom the telegraph acquainted
with tho Empress movement attended at an
any OF the stations a. which .hc might be cZp"cto
~ arrive somehow, the august traveller cohtnYe 10
escape thc. attentions and drove uuI'tOEze 70 anu ic
i ~, I, NH Whence alter a auot saunfer
next heard of Edinburgh NJ Ola gow and on the tract,
OF summer tourists IN iAc u sniat,, AI,'r e ti1ge
She reapprar'd at the Tpi'rres. One explanation
a,Cnbed the imperial lady yst to glei ior tAs aeaIa
nc Of harmless ccceuiuciyi al,thef 70 Iol-I.'tE'
natural in one not born in tho purple, to WIZ
draw, for however snort period from I'd,
weary lnonot0uv of her lofty station. But none Of
Ic-c seemed si'lranf and the Imposition which Oh
tanned most public favor was that the flight OF the EN-
press the result OF some storm IN tie impsriI! nous
hold and f. genie extremely dovOut and ~ tht
moment the Emperor had just openly countennuced
the Gta invasion OI the Marches and JmUi ana was
underwriting 10 prov a on tho Pope consent to the loss
OF those PROVINCES il was surmi,ad that husband aud
wife bad uuarrelrd about the Roman question. BNI
there were besides. ,hrcwIcr ucwsmongcrs, who as
serted that jealousy was at the Sotton Of tr Imperial
sop'e indiscrcton Of her lord The Emperor and had
vowed not t. 90 back u him. unless tie cause OF oehSe
Whatever mystery might yet have hung upon that
al f.rVo ON en- "A welded
been otherwise singuarly from domestic clouds has
been unvasd by the sentence pronounced by the French
Court of Cessation ia favor of NJ Dtvennc, the late
first President II the Court OF Paris. II seems now GER
tain that the Emperor had really time before that
short breach OF his domestic peace, succumbed TO the
nf u,rh coy,ltt..n nm tie P,ri, world and that the
di,plcasurc OF The Empress caused 10y the reports
i, p tween his i,ty and fbc Emperor and of the
conseGuencc, the connection had cuti.cd, which could
hardly fail to lead to some scanda0us exposure. ,Ihe
happiness Of the wife and the safety OF the husband
CURED something more than the removal OF the rival.
II necessary 70 obtain from her retFacoh Oh to
the strength which she threatened to bring the Epe
rOr before court Of law. The Empress, generously gly
ing up all idea OF divorce and cOnsentng TO reconc-
on with her errng husband cxerted herself to cXtOr
from her rival declaration to the effect that she had de-
cciycd the Emperor and that their intercourse had no
such results as she had led him to believe.
We do not think that out Of France at least people VIII
greatly themselves about the part player by the
Chief President OF the Imperial Court in TINS delicate
transaction. All the interest concentrates latl on one
point, and that Is the whole Tear the Emperor "pO
leon entertained 10 the consequences OF his muelc-
ton He was at that time ut the hight of his popularity,
for his Lombard campaign had won him the applause even
of his cuCnfs while the annexation OF Savoy and Nee
had rcconced 10 him the advocates OF more strcy M
tiOnal policy But lawsuit such a. his cnpaDe attic
mcnt 50 nearly involved him in more than even N an
his might he would have ventured to face Ills WeJOua
placae to the fault, would have been ineXoraDe 10 lt
exposure aud peace could hardly have been made unless
a mean, had been found TO hush mp the scandal Inc
Emperors prospects for himself and ms dynasty W3uI
have los, much OF their brightness and the nation which
had coudoncd the comp dut and accepted personal rule
would have murmuTed at domestic irregularities oWhc
generally society shows only too much indulgence Dut
which the high rank Of the offender woud not nave
allowed il 10 ignore. In our age when we pace klnSs
and princes above us expect them 70 De the DEE
aouy us and 81 they actually are not what we W'hu
have them insist at least on their seeming 10 ne So