The Manchester Examiner. — 1848-03-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

CHEVALIER BLANC.—Hundreds of stories are afloat all cal,ulated to seize upon the imagination, and just at a period ' like the present, when everything seems possible, are greedily believed. It appears that a young man, ribose brain has evidently been heated by. the late events, fancying himself a Karl Moor, has been riding about Paris at midnight for the last week. He is attired in a white burnous which envelops him from head to foot, with a white felt hat: and mounted ou a : white charger has hitherto defied the pursuit of the patrol, who have been constantly kept on the alertby his sudden appearance amongst their ranks. At first the affair was regarded as a joke, and its dandy perpeiratoralready named, when lo—yesterday at every guardhouse in Paris was posted his sigiudement ("black beard and monstachios, regular features, age from twentyfive to thirty—Jeone homme de Ices grande beauth)—calling upon every citizen who should meethitu ou his path not to arrest him in the name of the republic, but to shoot him dead upon the spot without even being compelled to the usual admonitory (Psi vivel To describe the consternation occasioned by this decree would be utterly impossible—nor yet the extravagant suppositions to which it has given rise. Some say of course that be is an agent of Henri V. and others that he is a son of the Dauphin, sou of Louis Seize, while many believe him to be a midinght marauder, well known to the police, whose only object is rapine and devastation—but the interest exciied concerning him is most intense. LOUIS PHILIPPE'S VicTims.—The French law enables the'survivors of an individual killed by the negligence, or— es in cases of duel—the malice of another, to site the homicide for pecuniary damages. (Part of this law has of late been very wisely added to our statute-book.) Now, we trust that the private property—or at least a great portion of it—left in the power of the French government by Louis Philippe will be devoted to pension and relieve—as the claims may be—the surviving relatives of the individuals murdered by the tyranny of the despot ; and further to assist those maimed and crippled by the shot and steel of the wicked old man who, like a baulked ogre, has been hunted from a land that, at any price of human blood, be would have held his own. We would have houses built, and schools established for the widowed and orphaned. And we would have it made patent to the world—by inscriptions upon the walls—that such asylums, such institutions, were established by the republic of France by means of, the confiscated property of the tyrant. This would be as much as lies in human power, to solace the misery of the surviving victims at the cost of the evil-doer. And if history has to write upou her bloody page the names of hundreds butchered by the calculating policy of a treacherous king, the chronicle would be somewhat lightened of its horrors by the recorded fact, that if the weapons of the monarch carried death among his suffering subjects, the gold of the dethroned and outcast tyrant ministered to the support and the instruction of those once dear to his victims.—Jerrolds Weekly Newspaper.  -