THE FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY.

Anglo-Maori Warder, Volume 1, Issue 15, 3 August 1848, Page 3

THE FRENCH ROYAL FAMILY.

( From the Times, March 4.) It is with the greatest pleasure that we announce the safe arrival of the last and most illustrious instalment of the royal fugitives on these shores. For a whole wick tbe ea-King of ihe French, alter jilaying for eighteen yeats the mrgt conspicuous pnrton the mr ot cuuspifiuus *tase of European affairs, has totally «!• «• appeared from tbe scene. His place could nowheie be ffuud ; and, shocking as all would have felt it, it was at least as probable a conj' cture ns any other, that his Majesty had perished in the Channel. The Express steamer brought them vestarday morning from Newbaven, where they had to wait for some hours till the state of the tide would enable them to enter the harbour. At last they landed, und were glad to receive a tery hearty welcome to the well-known shore. For the rest we must refer to the particulars which w * have keen enabled to supply, and to which the rank, the misfortune, and, it must be added, the errors ot the distinguished sufferer, will impart so peculiar an interest. It may be safely said there is nothing in history, nothing, at lenst, in the examples which most readily occur to the mind, that at all conies near to the tremendous Middenness of the present royal reverse. This day fortnight 1 ouis Philippe was tbe most prosperous, the most powerful, and accounted the ablest Sovereign in the world. If the reader will just thins of it, he will find that this wonderful man had attained the very acme of success, consideration, and power. It is a work of time to inumerate the many circumstances of his splendid condition. His numerous, handsome and dutiful children; the brilliant alliances—one oi them recently concluded,—which brought in o one family interest the vast region from Antwerp to Cadiz ; the near prospect of an event which would probably make his grandchild the sovereign, his son the Regent of Spain ; the great cross and drawback of his reign just removed,—Algeria pacified after eighteen yearb' war ; his immense private fortune; his eleven or twelve palaces, unequalled for situation and magnificence, on all of which he had recently spent immense sums of money; his splendid army of four hundred thousand men, in the highest discipline and equipment; a Minister of unequalled energy and genius, who had found out at last the secret of France; a metropolis fortified and armed to the teeth against all the world; tbe favourable advances recently made by those Powers who had previously looked down on the royal parvenu \ the wellbalanced state of his foreign relations, and the firraljgrasped reins of the political car all these gifts of and more, u we had time to go onwuh lie list, were heaped on cne man, in sucQ profusion ss teaily to pall the imagination What crowned it all wa», tbat Louis Philippe was allowed the entire credit c»f his success. It was all the work of hi* own bunds. He might stand like tliii ancient king on ihtf wa!U and towers which be had drawn round hisi ity, and cont< plate the perfect wotk of beiu y and policy which himself had niude. The balance ol Europe t u e causes Oj

peoples ami kimrs, the issues of penes and of w*ir> were in his hinds. If there was an auxin aliqitut in tbi* garden of roses and delights twenty impregnable for'a and a hundred thousand nrmed men were nn insignificant waica upon a few subjects Solomon hims If would liardlv have ventured to pi each upon his envious ten, onw übituin huho, to so safe u man. What we have described waa a sober and solid reality. What we now come to reads like 'he preposterous inciduitsofa nursery tale. A mob of artisan?, boys, and some women, pours through the streets of Paris, They make fur the palace. Eignty thousand infantry, cavalry, and artillery, are dumbfounded and stultified. In a few minutes n« elderly couple are seen hulling jiway fr-»tn the hubbub; they are thrust into a hack cab, and driven out of the way. 'lhe mob rushes into the Sena'e and proclaims a Republican Government, which exists, wh ch is vuling tbe nation with great tncrgy antl juilgmcnt, and is al-eady communicating with ihe representatives of foreign powers, hut, let us follow the Prinrcs. We pay it without intending any disrespect, rnd only a* relating the simple truth of the ofFtir. No family of Iri«h tminpers was ever so fummaiily bandhd out of the way as tUia illustiious group. The Qn ,- en, weaietold, had run back to a bureau for some siiver, but it seems it was uot enough, as a hat w«s fent round for the Royal couple at St. Cloud, and a small sum clubbed by the National Guard- At Dreux they were left with a fivefrance piece between them. Flying " when none pursucth,'* th»y get to Louis Philippe's once celebrated chateau at Eu, which they are afraid to enter. So there ,they disappear into space. They were to be at Eu, and for a week —thit i* all we know of tbem. Meanwhile the rest had dropped in one by one. They come like foreign birds, dashed by a storm acain<>t a lighthouse. Tbe Duke dc Nemours and certain Snxe Coburgs came one day, knowing nothing of the rest. They parted in the croud. A SpanUh Infanta, for whose hand all tba world was competing the year befoie'ast, scrambled outano'her way, through bye roads and backdoors; and —strange event—is likely to give S| ain an Englishborn Sovereign, undtr Victoria's kindly auspicts. sooner, however, haveth? fugitives fouml a friendly asylum than they are obliged to Hvk another root. Other princes antl princesses turn up here and tin re. A Lady-in-Waiting itjoii.s her mis rej*. A Cabinet Minister is foun.i. TLe <hil Ireru and ss of another arrive, The rent nircb »nd ic-i ■■ u m.'c stranga enough. A Prince of the Ebod-nd an tX-Ttefect; meet in disguise and do not huow one Miother. Veiy late a youthful heir of the C own oj Frjnce, fil w'au had been actual'y acknowledged as Kit g by the deputies, is discovered lit c Cham ul »nd with Ins mother and brother, 'il'j twochiUlrtn I ul been almost lost in the mob on lenv.ag the Cii.mbct, hid been got somehow to Eu. with mother, wearied, aod bearing mu-h'y maik* ol tiavcl. Thence by heavy hrb ng they h-d procme-l a pai f a;e to the British rock. Thus they are dnKn.nd scattrielLy tbe besom of levo'uhon. Tivy anive pfnudesr, without a change of raiment, dejected end bewildered, telhng one auother their stories of many strange adventures, having each come a d JTcient j nurncy, thuuli starting at one point and almost at hour. A'ter many days' suspense, tha king and queen are heard of, on some private information, on the coast of Normandy, where they had been "on the run " fiou house to lijuse, and content with humble hospitality ; the king, we are told, iu strange disjjuisos. Tl ey pull have a small retiuue. There h.ilfd'2en invader?, without eitler arms or baggage, do i ot find it so easy to cross tbe channel. Stationing themselves nt Hon Sear, withiu 20 minute* sail of Havre, they watch opportunity and the weather, which 1 st delays thua passage several days. At length thfy ge; into British steamer. Arrived at Ntwh.vtn, ulte.* a rough paisage, they encounter frtsii delays, as if to prove that England is not so easily surv rised. Louis Phnippe, who was to bridge the Biiti h liellc-pont, crosses ifc with foreign aid and lands in a peajicket borrowed from the Impish Captain. He fi->ds himself at boair. The ations aud the fi lends of his lornter exile greet him. A generation passes l'ke a dream, and this aged Monarch finds himself the Duke of Orleans, the banished son of old Egaliic ajraiQ. Would th.t all could be forgotten! But, il wha> is s*ul he true, some recollections did oicur of an acusins <■ Tho frequent exclamation* "L Ke (Jiiarlcs X we are to'd, betrayed the current of hi>- thought Jt 4i We are v»rv guilty concerning our broiliPi—iherefoie is this dis'ru-.s come upon us." At the very moment the missing kmj appears at oue port his Minuter is hcattl ot ac auother. Guziot is now in London. His day far active life is over; he is again the philosopher and historian ; and, doubtless, hke the Roman orator, will forthwith occupy his political retirement wjth siudus far mo e fu»ted to his genius, and more conducive to his reputation, than the government of states. England's path is clear. She is the retnge of extl?s and opens her shores to the unfortunate of everj i.md or party. She would at once piecludc licrscit ir;m offering this hospitali V, and leave Europe without refuge, if s>he involved hers- If in the turned c.usesai.il pretentions of her royal vis tors. but. can only, receive them as exiles, m>t as pretenders. It nuy be with some violence to but it is nevertheless necessary to let it be e'early understood by these differeuce* within the rage cf courtly ciiqjette, ihit *lnle tbe persons of the un'ortuuate are pitied und respictud, and their former rank remembered, they still possess no higher character than what (heir own nation ciiuus.s to allow. FoLKSTOfcs, Tuesday Mokning.—A government messenger passed through Li t f>nia Boulogne, with important de.-patct.cs trom LorJ Norinauby. They are believed to cuutain tlie futuul announcement by the Provisional Covernmsut, thai 'he Prench people have agreed to establish a rcpublif r* form of government as mere favourable to social orde , equahty t and progress. Lord NorcmoUy's desputch will he fouud to contain the asaurdnce that, judging from recent events, the new government posses>c* the power to preserve oider, and to itself to he respected. But it is understood that our ambassador expresses grave doubts whether the peace «»f Ku'opa can be maintained if any attempt should be uindt3 to extend ihe present frontiers of France cs guaranteed by the treaty of Vienna. The reply of ihe cabinet of St. James's to this important despatch is regarded with intense interest iu Pans. The more moderate "men of the Htuutian' trust that Lord Pdlraerstoo may strengthen their hands by a prompt recognition of the right of the Fienih nation to choose their own form of government, coupled wiili the strongest and uiovt friendly representation ot the U>ugcr ot uu isolated auil aggressive policy. It by such advice and mediation by an arbiter, the French cun be dissuaded from man I • ing an army to diive the Ans rur.3 from Lombardy, as it was yeutcrduy reported they had resolved to do, lUe peace of the world will be preserved.—S/uwiard.

Ths Ex-Ro\ \l Family of France.-—The Puke Oe Nemours is no <mi»matn ui ileitioiri lli>us«\ His Royal H>gbne*s» together with U»s illu->ln. ■ s law, the Daclus* Ue Mmjtpcnsiw, 101 l Ujo Embassy last, evening, runl cbuy ure now otfui-y-y; Hpartunsm* nt Ui« Uglgum Lcgi'ion, I'ottlaod i\ '-i

The reason of this is soon told. At four o'clock yesterday the Couot de Jarosc, French Minister under the former regime, received despatches by a special courier from M. de Lamartiue, who has charge of the Foreign Affairs in the Provisional Government, informing hi* Excellency officially of the retirement of the Orleans dynasty, and the assumption of power by the Provisional Government. On receipt of this intelligence the Duke at once determined to leave the Embassy. At half past twelve his Royal Highpess Prince Albert arrived at the Embassy on horseback, attended by his Equery in Waiting, Colonel Seymour. His Royal Highness was received by the Count de Jarnao, by wbom be wrs presented to the Duchess de Montpensier and the Duke de Nemour*. Uis Royal Highness had a lengthened interview with the illuitrious Princess and her brother.iu-law. The Chevalier de Tacon, Spanish Charge d* Affairs, bsd the honour of an interr view with her Royal Higbaess the Duchess de Montpensier at an early hour in the afternoon. A report was current during the eveniog that a letter had been received in Londou on Tuesday morning, by a ladj- of title, announcing the safe arrival at Brussels of Louis Philippe and other members of his family, but on in* quiring the statement appeared to be purely apocry* j/bal; and on the arrival of the courier above alluded U> at eleven o'clock last night, M« Van de Weyer had the painful task of communicating to the illustrious exiles under hia roof that the despatches he bad recetved contained no intelligence whatever as to the exRoyal Family.—'Liverpool Times, March 2.

(From the Paris papers of Sunday, Feh> 27) All the Churches were open on Sunday, in Paris, and masses were sa'd for the ad* In the Cathedral of Kotre Dame, the Abbe Lacordaire commenced his series of Sermons, the first of which was long since fixed for thai day. An immense crowd was present. The reverend geutleman first read the Archbishop's letter. On the demand of the Government the Archbishop pave orders to have the "Domine salvum fac populum" henceforward suog in all Churches. The Abbe, addressing the Archbishop, said— 11 Moogcigneur, the country by my voice thanks you for the courageous and catholic example which you have given—»t thanks you for having known how to conciliate the immutability of the Cburch and the sanctity of oaths with the changes which God effects in the world, by the hands of men/' Ttie preacher, as if to give proofs of this Immutability, wished to coutinue the devt-lopement of the doctrine which he had set forth so eloquently for several years. He appeared to desire to entrench himself behind Divine tradition, and to preserve it from tbf invasion of history—bat the fire burst oat, and the Dominican of the people, arrivkog at the proofs of tbe existence of God, cried out—' lt Prove to yon God! Wfre 1 to attempt to do so you would have a right to call me parricide and sacrilegious! If 1 dared to undertake to demonstrate to you God, the gates of this cathedral would opm of themselves, and bhow you this people, superb io its anger, carrying God to His altar iu the Uiidst of respect and adoration 1" Tbe whole auditory were so much moved that they testified loud applause, which the sanctity of the place could aot restrain. The Debats alluding to this scene says— M It is well; let the Church take its place, like us all. Let it show itself, tbe people will recognize it. Let it not bare any dread o% the revolution* in order that the revolution may not be afraid of it. God haa.delivered the world to discossion—Traditit mundunt dispuiaiioni. Let the Church use its arms—the Word and Charity— Instruction and Action. Let it aid ilsetf—God will aid it!"

The Queen of the Frenctrhas presented to the Pope, a anew year's gift a magnificient tiara, set witb the splended diamonds formerly belongiug to the Duchess de Peiithievre, which are encased in violet coloured enamel. —Major N-»ah, editor of the New York Sunday Times, ia reply to a Pittsburg editor, who contended that an " immtnse fortune" was not likely to give happiness, offers to settle the question by which it tested in his own person.