Star. — 1830-08-31 (London, England)

PROM OUR PARIS CORRESPONDENT.  SUNDAY, AUG. 29. The Moniteur of yesterday contains the following formal notice of the death of the Duke of Bourbon.—" Paris, Aug. 27, 1830. Conformably to a Royal Ordonnance of the 23d of March, 1816. The certificate of the decease of his Royal Highness the most high and puissant Prince Louis Henri Joseph de Bourbon-Conde, Duke of Bourbon, Prince of the Blood, deceased this day, at his Chateau of St. Leu, in the department of the Seine and Oise, in the 75th year of his age, was drawn up this day by Baron Pasquier, President of the Chamber of Peers, accompanied by the Marquis de Semoville, Grand Referendary, and by the Keeper of the Archives of the Chamber, depositary of the Registers of the Etat Civil of the Royal Family. The Count de Vilegonthier, a Peer of France, -First Gentleman of the Chamber of his Royal Highness, and the Count de Choulot, Captain-General of the Chasse of the Prince, signed the Act as witnesses. The corpse was presented by Baron de Flassan, chief equerry." In my letter of yesterday, I stated to you the general rumour at Paris that the Prince had committed suicide ; and the following article in the Moniteur gives a kind of confirmation to the report:— " The Solicitor-General of the Royal Court of Paris set out yesterday for St. Leu, to inquire into the circumstances of the Prince of Conde's death." Yesterday evening, however, I saw a person attached to the King's household, who gave me information which sets the matter at rest, beyond mere rumour. Ho informed me that Count Cosse, a most inveterate jesuit, who was Maitre d'Hotel to Charles the Tenth, paid a visit to the Duke of Bourbon the evening before his death, and that he had been impressing upon him the necessity of adhering to his oath of fidelity to the late King, and that he ought to dispose of his property and follow his fortunes. On the same evening Count Cosse departed for Cherbourg. After he had left St. Lau, the Duke of Bourbon appeared very depressed in spirits, and desired that he might not be disturbed early in the morning. Some time after his usual hour for rising in the morning, a servant entered his chamber and discovered the Duke hanging by a hook from the window, with his feet touching the ground, but quite dead. A will, it is said, has been discovered in the, Prince's chamber, by which he has bequeathed the whole of his property, which is, I understand, upwards of 30,000 a-year to the Duke d'Aumale, the King's fourth eon, upon condition of his taking the title of Prince of Conde. Messengers were sent in pursuit of the Count Cosse, and he is said to be arrested.  We applaud with joy the measure which has just been taken by the Government, to sanction the new consecration of the Pantheon, which had been done so spontaneously by the people. The famous inscription of M. de Pastoret, restored in three days and inscribed by a rude hand upon a piece of linen, will re-appear in bronze upon the front of the temple. Already Voltaire and Rousseau, who during fifteen years had been banished to an obscure vault, have taken their places w ithin its walls. Other illustrious names still wait a brilliant reparation, or a tardy justice. The manes of Kellermann, who gained the first battle for liberty, claim a marble monument, on which will be read the glorious name of Valmy ! The remains of Larochefoucault-Liancourt thrown in the mire by the agents of police of Delavau— those of David, who died in exile—of Girodet, of Camille Jordan—of Monge, the founder of the Polytechniqueschool—of Foy, of Manuel, and of many others, who having their place marked out in the pantheon—it is but just that they should be placed there. But there is another use against which a gothic prejudice shut the gates of the Academy—and which ought to be removed. The monument of Garrick is placed in Westminster Abbey, between those of, Milton and Shakspear ; and not far from the mausoleum of the Kings of England—and why should not we have, like the " Poets' Corner" of the English, a corner reserved for our poets ? Would the statue of Talma be displaced in the midst of the monuments raised to our men of letters and men of genius ? We submit this idea to the Commission charged to restore the Pantheon to its primitive object; and as the names of Lafayette and Jourdan are to be found in that Commission, it is a guarantee that merit and genius will not be rejected.—Le Temps.  The sum of 1,200 francs for the victims of July, has been sent from Florence to the Constitutionnel, with the following letter :  Sir—We are far from France, but brought up to cherish it, and proud of the noble title of Frenchmen, which our dear countrymen again so recently illustrated. We feel the wish of contributing to the wants of those, amongst whom we should have been so happy to have shared the danger and glory; but since we hare not been able to participate in their happiness, let theii, at least, accept the humble offering of my brother and myself. " Accept, ac. "