The New York herald., 1873-12-26

fanatic in him and may be relied on
| always to give hot and imprudeDt advice.
M. Fortou looks much like priest in civil
ian's garb, and is sad-whether truly or not |
have no means of learning to be aniliated to the
| Society OF Jesus. Baron de Larcy is personal
| friend Of the Count de Chambord, and has, accord
| ing to current rumor spent some 100000 during
the last three years in getting royaiist and rei
| gious tracts spread about the rural districts.
l NM. DEPEYRE AND DEssELLEIGNY AND VICE
/ ADMIRAL DoMPIERRE D'H0RNOY
! are the three silent members or the Cabinet-men
| who are no speechmakers and might glide out or
the Ministry just as they have slipped into it, with
| out exciting any public comment NJ. Depeyre,
| who Lolds the Department or Justice and Public
Worship, is M. de Broglies henchman, and will
! obey the Premier in all things blindly He is q
learned but not eloquent barrster, who has passed
| much of his professional life pleading cases in
which cergymen or clerical corporations were in
/ voved He is good authority on ecclesiastical
| law, and s, indeed, SO thoroughly lmpregnated
| with church views that he viii appoint no judges
! who are not in good odor with their diocesan
| bishops. 1t was he who was put up by
| the Right and Right Centre to move the seven
! years Presidency scheme; but he was heard de-
claring aloud in the lobbies tnat ne looked upon
MacMahon as dummy, who was to mount guard
over the throne until it were possible to put
Henri v. on it. M. Desseeigny Minister OF Public
Works, is son-in-law OF NJ Schneider, the owner OF
the great Creuzot foundry, and he follows the
lead OF M. Magne. In religion he Is tolerant; but,
like NJ Magne, he would rather abet the plans OF
the Catholic clergy than the risks or quarrelling
with them. AS to Vice Admiral Dompierre dior
noy, he is a sailor, q strong Papist and Bre-
ton, which says enough Bretons are obstinate
and Papist sailors are generally much keener In
their faith than other men, The Marine Minister
lima NJ hafxu N ofh ond
Protestant and he makes no secret or his an
tipatny for Jews. He came into ONCE on the Oath
May last, and has already vexed the minds OF
French mdshipmen and ship boys by ordering
that they shall go to confession at least once
month.
THE POLICY OF THE CABINET.
Such are the ten Ministers who hold the destinies
OF France at present in their keeping, and their
policy may be summed up in the old words
ultramontane- -Casarism. They are panic striken
men whose brains were fairly unsettled by the
extravagances and goddess impieties Of the Com
mune, and they believe they have mission to
restore "moral order" which is their phrase for
clerical and military ascendancy. They hate
republicanism of every shade because they believe
that moderate republicans will always be domi-
neered over by the radicals, and, be the hazards
what they may, they Will endeav0r to crush it. If
they were wise in their generation they would
that TepuDllCanlSm Is not Il LnlnR CHaJ can De
stamped out by penal edicts, and they would apply
themselves to GRIPPING the power OF the radicals
by giving France all the reasonable liberties for
which the radicals are agitating. But they
are comparatively ignorant men, who know moth
ing about the philosophy OF politics and can see
but little ahead OF them. Ii they can manage by
dint of reactionary legislation, sword and priest
rule, to keep France quiet for a season, they will
fatter themselves with the belief that she will bde
always tranquil, and in few years from this time
they will probably be standing in the same position
as the man who. alter carefully blocking up all the
apertures OF his kettle, was much panied and as
tonisned to see it explode.
Modern French Romance-A Fatal
French Ducl-Prince Soutxo and Prince
Ghfka-What Comes OF Taic-Bcnring.
PARIS, Dec. s, 1878.
Paris has been thrown .ato a state of some ex-
citemeut by duel between two Roumarian
princes, well known in all the circles of high life.
They are Prince Soutzo and Prince Nicholas Ghika,
and the great "sensationn OF the duel lies in the
fact that the vanquisher has not simply pinked lis
adversary, but slain him outright 1t is not
often that fatal duel takes place in
France, for combatants are generally prudent
enough to fight with fOils, and content
themselves with scratching each other in the arm
or across the chest. Firearms only resorted TO
when the parties are desperately in earnest; but,
generally speaking, Frenchmen fight only that they
may be able to boast oft matter afterwards, and
a man who wants to boast naturally avoids such
unaccommodating weapons as pistols. or the
many duels that have occurred on French soil dur
ing the last 40 years but half dozen have termin-
ated tragcally, and all these have been fought in
an un-FreDchmanlke way, with gunpowder. M.
Emile de Girardin killed the journalist Armand
Carrel in 1886 with pistol Marshal Bugeaud SINH
larry put end to the life OF Count Dulong; a few
years ago the Duke de Montpensier shot Don En-
rique de Bourbon IN the suburbs OF Madrid. and
some months since an American, Mr.. Appleton,
shot the banker M. Ritter. All these were grim
duels; but that between the two Roumanian
princes fercer than any OF them Tor 1t was
ranged that the antagonists should exchange four
shots and be stationed but 20 steps apart, with
leave to march upon each other alter the signal
had been given. The causes that led to the duel
are very romantic.
PRINCE sOUTZo
is descended from family who had ruled over
Wallachia. He is a dark, handsome nobleman, IS
years OF age, and spent some years as an officer in
the French army. He is very rich, and, on resign
ing his commission. married beautiful Rou-
manian lady, with whom he lived happily five
years. Unfortunately some estrangement arose
between the Prince and his wife. Some say the
lady was In the wrong, others aver that the
Princes love OF dissipation was the motive OF it;
but, in any case, the breach went on widening and
about month ago Princess Soutzo announced her
intention OF petltionng for divorce in the law
court of Bucharest. The Prince chafed the pros
pect OF seeing family scandal made public and
ne was the more incensed from suspecting that his
wife intended to remarry as soon as the divorce
was granted. He wished to know the name of his
rival, but could not find out. He set private
detectives to watch his wifes residence; but they
could bring him news OF any visitors excepting
the Princess brother and uncles On Sunday,
the Esd inst, however, friend OF Prince Soutzo
accosted him at the club OF the Rue Royale and
said with more familiarity than good TASTE "Shall
tell you whom the Princess means to marry ?"
"who is 1t ?" inquired the Prince, eagerly. "Why,