Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-10-25

fair daughter Of the Duke de Fer
nan-NUnez, and an invitation to at
tend the marriage was certainly
sent to Ohlselhurst. When it was
announced that it had been or
would be accepted French politi.
clans in and out of office did not
precisely relish the promised advent
so near the Franco -Belgic frontier
of one who, though his own claims
to acceptance are small as yet, is
heir to the great name of Napoleon.
The Paris papers, jumping to a
conclusion as usual, took it for
granted that he would remain near
the frontier during the French
elections.
AT his Chateau of Dave French
men of all political parties are hos
pitably entertained by the Duke de
Fernan Nunez, whose extensive
Belgian estates, by the way, have
been in his family ever since the
Spanish proprietorShip of the
Netherlands. For an account of
the manner in which the duke got
rid of the Spaniards and built up a
great republic read the elaborate
and accurate works of the great
American author, the late ]. L.
Motley, to whose memory the ada
cent Kingdom of Holland is about
erecting a handsome monument.
Belgium is neutral ground, on
which, as, in England, politically
prescribed persons may reside with
out restriction, though always un-
der secret police surveillance. So
it used to be in Switzerland; but
this was exceptionally so; for in
October, 1888, Prince Louis Napo-
leon, who had returned to Switzer-
land after his mothers death, was
living very quietly there in the
Chateau of Arenenberg, her legacy
to him, when Louis Philippe de-
manded that the Swiss government
should Danish him, and when there
naturally was a demur to this inso-
lent dictation threatened to send a
French army to the frontier to sup
port this demand by force. Rather
than imperil the Swiss republic,
Louis Napoleon quietly withdrew
to London. So, too, in 1852, when
Victor Hugo, who had found an
asylum in Brussels, was there or.
granizing Republican party, the
Belgian government, on strong
hint from the Tuilcries, intimated
to the political poet that his retire
ment would be acceptable hint
Immediately and Indignantly acted
upon.
At present, however, King Leo
pold would scarcely turn an exiled
Erenchman out of Belgium. Prince
Pierre Bonaparte, that turbulent
nephew of Napoleon l, who, under
his own roof, shot Victor Noir early
in 1871, and was acquitted on the
charge Of murder, is about leaving
Brussels, where he has resided some
years. On the fall of the empire
he retired. to London, where his
wife resumed her original profession
of dresSmaker, and was successful
for some time, second class people
rejoicing to boast that an imperial
princes was their modiste. Most of
these forgot to pay her, and the
poor woman became bankrupt.
Then they came to Brussels, where
people, gentle or simple, can live on
very small means. Two years ago
Prince Pierre, burly fellow, with
out any personal resemblance to the
generally well looking Bonaparte
family, though Prince Lucien was
his father, published the first vol
ume of his own memoirs, in which
some interesting particulars of the
NapoIeon's private relations and
quarrels with his brothers are highly
amusing and communicative. AS
the second volume has not appeared
it is presumed that the first has not
precisely been a mine of wealth TO
its author and publisher. He has
been six years in Brussels, where he
has generally been avoided, particu-
larly as his pecuniary means were
pvidnntlv small