Morning journal and courier., 1882-11-13

life the Princess quilted her husband. She could not live with dignity under the same roof with him. He thought to make her submit by cutting off supplies. Luckily for her the Emperor Nicholas was trying to get his daughter Olga married to the hereditary Prince of Wurtemburg. On behalf Of hls niece the King of that State complained Of Prince Demidof to the CZar who ordered him to grant his wife annuity of 2OO,OO rubles and not to approach nearer than 300 leagues to any city in which she might be re- siding, it having been represented that he was of jealous disposition and prone to fe- rocious anger. The restriction was removed when he had ceased to regard himself as married man. He came back to Paris to live
 in the mysterious looking red brick house near the Chapelle E1piatoire. Mile Duver- ger, of the Opera Comique, was asked to ln- stall herself governess of the mansion, the shutters of which, on the street side, were never opened. Prince Anatole died three years ago. His nephews came into his fortune. The widow put on mourning, but refused to don weeds.
 When Prince Louis Napoleon was elected President of the second republic he asked his cousin Mathilde to do the honors of the Elysee. For three years she enjoyed so- cial primacy. She retained that situation during the first year of the empire No sp portunity had been lost to stimulate her cousins affection for her brother, and to bring him to regard Prince Napoleon as his adopted son. She almost succeeded. The Emperor until the day of his death was un- der the delusion that it was he who had formed Prince Napoleon's mind.
 The social primacy had a disagrseabls ending. Princess Mathilde had early seen through the ambitious designs of the Coun- tess de Montijo and her daughter, and frowned them out of the Elysee. AS society concurred in her view of the two ladies, they both thought it desirable to return for a short time to Spain. Unknown to his cous- in, the Prince President corresponded with them both. When he proposed for the Countess de Teba, she insisted upon him asking the Princess Mathilde to be- while the engagement lasted, her chaperon, and. as such, to stay with her at the Elysee. The pill was bitter one. But it was swallowed on the conditions that the status given as heir presumptive to Prince Napoleon was to be maintained, and that, if Mrs. Patterson
 Bonaparte gave trouble, the judges were to be instructed to decide against her. On the restoration of the Empire, the Princess Mathilde was granted civil-list pension which rendered her independent of her husband and the Czar, and was allowed the use of the house in the Rue de Cour- celles which Louis Philppe's government had lent to Queen Christina. The Emperor had also bought for her the country resi- dence at St. Gratian, where she lives from
 Easter to Michaelmas Her house there is a large, roomy, unpretentious seventeenth century ediice, standing in 8 park, on the summit of low hill. It commands view
 if the lake of Enghien, to which grassy avenue fanked by ancient trees descends.
 The Princess is fond of horticulture. She is often with 8 whip in hand chasing and threatening her lap-dog, Bacbette, for hay ing run in among the flowers.
 On First Communion Sunday at St. Ora tian, Princess Mathilde attends mass, and is a sort of godmother to the poor children who participate in the ceremony. They are dressed and given neat prayer-books at her expense. She overlooks what is dogmatio, and only pays attention to the social advan' tages ot the rite. NJ. Renan. who is her spiritual director tells her she reasons just iy, and acts as commendably as she reasons. Her judgment is sound, and prejudice has no hold upon her mind. In town, the Princess Mathilde now lives in small house in the Rue de Berri, of which the inner court, by meaos of glazed roof and silk velum striped in ruby and orange, has been trans. formed into a large saloon of Oriental as- poet. Small sofas and cosy chairs are grouped together to facilitate conversation. The Princess has a strong though not unmu- sical, voice, and speaks with good emphasis Gentlemen dropping into her receptions kiss her wrist at the bracelet. Ladies curtsey Her port is regal and her manner is friendly In company her fingers never run over the l keyboard of the grand piano. She only plays for intimate friends or when she is alone.