Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-07-03

| OF legislature. 1t Is the old story. An up
per house seems danger to the State if i
stops any measure voted by the lower house
The argument put forward by the govern
ment, and accepted by the majority, is thai
| the house of France constituted q parable
government, and that two governments are
not to be tolerated in the country at ons
| time. Now if the house of Orleans formed
| government it must have been a very quiet
| and inofensive one. The Comte de Paris IL
| is true, did invite few friends to the wed
| dings of his daughters, and as he could
scarcely give these same daughters to the
butcher or the baker round the corner. be
| gave them to men of their own rank and
asked friends of his rank to come and wish
| them good luck. This is the head and
| front of his offending SO far as 1 can learn,
! and, as I said, if the house of France gov
erned it was in a very harmless way. The
ma jority hoped to overthrow the government
| of M. de Freycinet-for that was the aim
| but M. de Freycinet was a match for them.
He yielded, rather proposed the bill himself
and is still prime minister.
But what about governing body number
| 3? The House of Deputies seem to overlook
that one. And yet it is rampant enough In
all conscience and lords it right royalty over
| the capital This rasl ard much to be dread.
! ed power is the Anarchical government, and
| its headquarters are the Paris Hotel-de- Vile
| The municipal council is its parliament, at
whose meetings it makes its menaces and
mandates known. It has a staff of official
agents devoted to it's interests and its ain,
which is the autonomy of Paris, that is to
say the Commune or anarchy. Strange to
say, the present government has not a word
to say against this state of things. The
princes are expelled measure of ''epura-
tion;" (the word was used in parliament. }
But "to expurgate" means to get rid of all
that is obnoxious, not of all that is respecta-
BILE and clean.
Rr1ta ic fbo aio 1,;11
not satisfy the more advanced members of
the Radical party. They ymaintain-and this
perhaps with reason-that the Due d'Auraale
is, on account of his personal fortune and
abilities, more influential, more danger
GUS member of the house of Orleans than
the Comte de Paris, its head, and they de.
mand the expulsion of all the princes, wheth-
er of the Orleans or the Bonaparte families,
and the con6seation of their property They
even propose that two to five years. impris-
onment should be the punishment inflicted
upon any relations of the princes found upon
French territory. The consequences of this
bill If passed are somewhat amusing. His
Majesty Leopold IL, King of the Belgians,
would not even be able to pass through
France. The territory of the republic would
likewise be prohibited, under the same pen
atty, TO the King of Italy, brother in law of
Prince Napoleon, just as King Leopold is the
brother-in law of the Comte de Paris un-
Louis Philippe, the heir to the throne of Bra
zil, the Duke of Montpensier, Prince and
Princess Waldemar of Denmark, the future
King and Queen of Portugal-all these
would be liable to imprisonment if they ven-
tured to set foot en- French soil Fancy
of Her Majesty the Republic! What grand
sight for the ''peupi- souverain!' But also
what impulse it would give to the forthcom-
ing Universal exhibition.
It appears that the Comte de Paris had
been proclaimed King of France. This is
how. A stauneh Royalist lew weeks ago
sent letter to the Comte addressed thus:
''To the King of France, Paris" The post
man on duty in the district inhabited by the
head of the house of France wrote on the
back of the envelope: ''Try 81 rue de Va
renne." The letter thus reached its destina-
ton. If the postofice authorities knew
where the "K1ng of France" lived I quite
understand that the republic could not ig-
more his existence.
"REMINISCENCES OF THE LATE KING OF BA-
vARIA.
Last Monday Louis H., King of Bavaria,
indulged in his last freak. In the most ro-
| mantle spot, much frequented by poets and
painters, the King, the most romantic OF
| Kings, committed suicide. Louis IL. was
born at Nymphenburg on the 25th of Au-
| gust, 1915, and at the age of nineteen sue
was then King as we imagine Kings in
| fairy tales; tall, slender, fair, with beautiful
| blue eyes, King every inch, the idol of his
people. The Parisians have not yet forgot
| ten that young and charming sovereign, who
| had come to Paris to join the host of Empe-
| rors and Kings at the time of the great exhi-
| bition of 1867. The ladies unanimously
agreed that they had never seen better
looking man. Strange to say, this mcst
| handsome prince was woman hater, and it
| is well known that the attendance of ladies
was declined at all the gatherings to whieh b
King Louis had been invited.
Since the Franco-German war King Louis
became as it were vassal of the Emperor of
Germany. From that time the Kings man
ners changed visibly. He knew he had lost
his prestige in the eyes of his people and he
songbt comfort in retirement His dreams
were haunted by past illusions of erandeu-.
He would wake up in the night i'll a feverish
state, and getting out of bed would order
horse and suddenly leave his castle for q
wild ride through the forests in the solemn
silence of the night. In 1872 review took
place at Munich. The King a!-ived at the
| head of brilliant staff. After passing be-
| fore the troops, who cheered him vcciferous
| ly, and without waiting for the traditioDsl
defle of the army he galloped off, leaving
his staff and the troops in perfect state CT
stupefaction. His passion for Wagner's mu
| sic was due to the 1aet that the poor King
| identified himself with the heroes of thost
old Germanic legends that Wagner had set
| to music. Perhaps some day Minsssinge1
will write the tragic life of this prince, who
| after succeeding to a throne saw that he was
1 compelled to be but subalrern to Prince
Won Bismarck, and finally preferred death te
| humiliation.
|. Fox six months at least before his depc
| sition Louis had become inapproachaole. Il
minister presented himself to get a Law
sanctioned or degree signed Wagns-'s in.
/ consolable friend would rush on him and lit
| orally kick him out of the room. He had &
| professor from Paris to teach him the savate
| or the use of the feet in a way to replace the
| use Of the fists. There is so much gravity
about the German character that this tragl-
comedy did not obtain the success it would
have met with in Paris, where the King
would no doubt have been pitied, but also
/ where the part of the Bavarian ministers
| would have caused a great deal of merEi
ment. Farewell good King LudwigI Thy
people were governed by one lunatic; but
/ am not quite sure that their lot was not tc
be envied by those who are governed by six
/ hundred of them.
| Another of your country is soon to
| obtain the satisfaction of hearing herself
called ''your ladyship," the dream of most
daughters of democratic America-sccoTding
to our European notions at any rate. on'
| of the events of the season will be the mar
riage of Earl Cairns with Miss Adele Gran
| in July. Miss Grant and her mother havt
taken up their abode in upper Grosveno
street for the remainder of the London sea
son. The young lady's trousseau, which il
nearly completed, is said to be of the mos
lavish desert ption. A society paper say
that Earl Cairns fiancee tells the time by
watch presented her by him, the back o
which is formed of cats eye surrounded b.
diamonds. Chacun ses goutsl
MAX O'RELL.