New-York tribune., 1879-01-02

governess, tan, gaunt. bot-uprieht lady, wearing
blue spectacles. With the Grand Ducal children her
ROYAL Highness spent Summer at Trouviile.
Orders were given to prcceptors and nursery Haius
TO inhict minimum of chastisements and seedlings
on their youthful charges. The reason was 1ne
Grand Duchess, whose husband had Just succteueu
his uncle, had observed in her sons ana daugnttcnS
a spirit of anmoslty toward this country,
winch grieved her. She wanted 10 ro0t ~ out VI
their breasts by rendering all their chiidlSn aSSo
lions with France delightful. lruly her snoi. s iIo
was angelic. and her end was peace. Inc .eig
graphic diSpalch-announcin her death to Reuters
Ageucy-Said: ''She Gied caliniy Wy"ce"e"" Nv
half past seven O'Clock IN the morning..
Don Alfonso has met what he did not bargain
for in refusing to accept Comic Horace de Cholseui
os Ambassador of Marshal MaoMahon. NJ. Nad-
dincton on being informed by the Marquis do
Mollus that his Majesty personally objected to the
Comte, answered that he shOuld DO sorry to I'M
pose on the King anyone dlsagreeable 10 hll'
Al the same time, the Government oil the hephohc
must insist on ITS right to be represented ABROAD DIV
Nor whose political principles were Republican.
Admiral Jaurez had not the misfortune to be I'M
favorably ncted at the Court of Madrid be never
having had the honor TO be presented TO the hlhg,
or Princess of Asturias. COmte Horace dc Cholseul
not being persona grdtG. the Cabinet OF the Maishs
had fallen back upon the Admiral. Tho new Ainoas-
sador 70 Madrid is a Protestant and Republican.
Rial, where it is remembered still that General
Sebastiani, grandfather of the COmte dc Choiseul'
saw on the Virgin of the Atocha superb set OF
diamonds and cooly took them off the statue to
bring home to his daughter Admiral Jaurez be-
longs to the Left Centre group, and was, by the In
Auence Of Gambetta, under whom he served
as General in the Army OF the Lore,
made life Senator. | met him at deed-
ner at the house of a Republican OF emil
nence last year. when the crisis OF the loth May
was most intense. He is a man OF great charm OF
manner. Though very natural, his liveliness nu-
ency and frankness are well disciplined. There is
manly honesty III his bearing which is very prepoS-
sessing. He has the prompttude OF an American ana
seeing well what he is about the directness In car
rying ont what he sets before him. This quahty Is
shown in q clear quick. well opened blue eye, anu
temperance of habit in fresh complexion. Ihe
Admiral was born in 1s26 at Abb, in the south OF
France. He belongs tOa naval family. HIS father
was Vice-AdmIral and served against Nelson. Inc
present Admiral JauTcz was engaged as an 0flcer Oh
marines III the Crlmea, Italy, Cochin Cmhl,
Senegal and Mexico. The Empress Eugene Kept
him and Admiral JauregulbcIry In unhealthy IN
tertronical stations She made point of never al
loving a Protestant TO be advanced for merit be-
cause she had pcO on the eve OF the Cfimeah
War dedicated with the Pope's approval the french
Navy to Mary, Star of the Sea. AdmiTais Lame
lin and GuevdOn made the ships of their fleets
jesuit chapes and turned their backs on every OIL
Ger who appeared indifferent to the deV0tlonai
practices winch they, TO please her SalestI;
introduced INTO the naval service. On the 1all
OF the Empire Captain Jaurez was detached from
the Baltic fleet and sent into Normandy TO tOrtny
the Peninsula of Charantan at the extreme polht
of which CheThourg stands.
Gambetta, on the recommendation of NJ de Frey
cinet then Under Secretary of War, summoned the
naval officer to Tours and confided to him the de-
fence of lie Mans. Reactionist wags, who desired
nothing more than the defeat of the armies inpro-
vised BY the Young Dictator, made merry at the
Captains rolling gait and maritime techncalltles III
giving orders TO the recruits under him. But
tenacty is one of De Freycinets virtues, and he
made Gambetta stand by Jaurez
The De Freycinets are also from Abb of naval
family and Protestants. Birds of Protestant feath-
ers very much flock together in France. When
Gambetta exhorted the gallant sea captain
TO be energetic he returned this reply:
When dogs show their teeth at me, knock them
down their throatsn Jaurez was placed at the
head of 2 900 raw mobiles and ordered to protect
lie Mans which a railway point of intersection
Of great importance, against the Grand Duke OF
Mecklenburg. For his skill he was named com
mander of the Army of the West. When his little
corps was fused with the Army of the Loire Jaurez,
who was by this time brgadier, faced the Prussians
at CoulmierS, where the French troops were vic
tOrous He successfully expelled them again at
lie Mans and inflicted serious losses Oh them at
llle-le-G Gmllaume. Gamhetta then promoted
him to be a general of division. la those days
able men rose in the Army by merit
After the Assembly came TO Versailles the
commission for revising military grades, though
inilnlca to Gambetta, recommended the Minister OF
Marine to grant the highest rewards 10 tue naval
general ior his Incompatible bravery, frmness and
stratepcal ability. lie was i'll consequence
raised from the grade of post captain to
that OF vce-admlral. l do not believe
the French Navy will long be deprived Of 40 good
man, His mission to Madrid Will be TO teach
Alfonso that the French Republic will not stand
ns inn, rtinence and TO study the military resources
of SPAN, the discipline of the army, and the
pOlitical termcnts working III 1T.