Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-08-07

AANHA AO"'J NuN pUyAhS IVA OANhA ~
1861, when she acquired Nice and
Savoy. In 1868 the pope separated
Monaco from the diocese Of Nice,
in consideration of the princes
agreement to establish a Benedictine
abbey, the abbot of which should
exercise episcopal functions in the
principality. Probably his heli-
ness never dreamed of the rival es.
Establishments which his princely
beneficiary was meditating.
With a territory 50 small and a
pedigree so ancient, the Prince of
Monaco ought to be the young
King Cole" of monarchs, and to
rule over a people as remarkable as
his realm. He does. None of them
are peasants, but all are of gentle
birth, Charles V, who hated to
make two bites of cherry, having
ennobled all the Monegasques in a
lump. Nor do they pay any taxes,
since the decree of February s,
1869, which abolished in the prin-
cipality all taxes, duties and fees,
and remitted all arrears that might
be due to the prince. All the reve-
nue. of the prince is furnished by
the company of which NJ. Blanc
was the head. The Etablissement
des Jeux has built a magnificent
casino and grand hotel, and
established at Monaco in perpetual
. session the high congress Of Euro
} pean gaming. The Blanc brothers,
Louis and Francois, like the illus
trious Benazet at Baden Baden,
were forced by a spasm Of German
virtue to abandon their Kursaal at
Homborg, for which they had paid
a high annual rent, besides expend-
ing on its construction half a mil
, lion francs. They were notified
that at the close of their thirty
: years lease in 1870 it would not be
! renewed, and at the same time
, France declared against public
gaming, so that the priests of the
goddess Fortune were forced to
! look out for some spot which to
natural advantages should add
those Of a government not toe
; strait-laced or too respectable to be
dealt with. They found theil
J hearts desire in Monaco. Under
: the new administration the place
. has increased in population as wei
! as in notoriety. The Casino il
!, open all the year round, with daily
concerts, balls, reading-rooms ant
6 all other accessories of the watering
! place. There is a grand and beau
tiful bath-house in the port, with
sea water and fresh water baths
under the same roof, with tenn.
J perature in the winter months like
that of Paris in June and July
The pretty little town looks loftily
: out over the azure sea, and has 4
palace, the Chateau de Marchais,
!, of the most castellated sort, which
: is occupied during most of the yeal
? by the prince, now nearly sixty and
Z nearly blind. Besides its gambling
: tables-which less than a month
{ ago a pious pilgrim to the pontilica
. Jubilee undertook to break up by
. the indiscriminate use of a revolver
Monaco offers capital attraction
i to European sportsmen in its an
+ nual pigeon shooting tournaments
% though we believe the sport is car
= ried on with the disadvantage o
sluggish birds and under the move
+ conditions of the traps being sprung
!, ~ on the edge of a seaward-lookins
. cliff with a net spread outside fol
y the retrieving Of birds. There is {
/ sound reason for this, the fact being
# that to shoot in any other wa,
. would be to put the inhabitants o
: considerable portion of the terri
+ tory in peril Of their noble and un
/, taxed lives.
d The present plince rejOices in al
Il heir, his son by the Countess Ghis
d tantee of Merode, a daughter Of tn,
t most famous Catholic family il
W Belgium. This prince, Albert Hon
/ ore, under the style of Due de Val
!. entinois, is an officer in the French
O. navy. He was born in 1S4S, anC
5, in 1869 married the only sister o
8. the present Duke Of Hamilton
d Brandon and Ohatelherault, whc
1t has borne him son, now sever
D. years old, but has found it neceS
le sary to leave him and take up he
% residence chiefly with her materna
# relations, the grand ducal family
re Baden, his highness Of Monac
it turning out badly at a very earl
lie period of her conjugal life. In fact
le she has had to run away from Mo
d naco to escape him, and there wa
9s a brief scandal over the affair
s, which redounded by no means t
l. his credit. Monaco, under the dy
30 nasty of the Blancs, has been tn
Is scene of sundry escapades, whicl
rs 60 to show that the noble gamester
c, of the present day in Europe are no
8 much better than their predecessor
G. who left, it will be remembered
e. about $5OO,OOO worth Of unhonore,
v though eminent autographs to b