Louis Philip is at present at Eu, one of the
most beautiful chateaus of Normandy, where he is to remain eight or ten days. Two of the Ministers, M. Guizot and M. Duchatel, are with him. It is stated, that after his return he will hold his Court at Fontainbleau, in the style Louis the Fourteenth was used to do at Manly ; and all the great have gone there already, in anticipation of the fkes, balls, and concerts. Time are also to be races, hunting, and, in fact, every thing to make it agreeable and splendid.
(In the 7th and Stir instant, the annual and general meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Music was held in Amsterdam. 'Ile report of the Managing Committee was extremely favourable. Since the 1st September 1834, the number of members has more than douldod, amounting at this time to one thousand six hundred pursuits, whitst a new Branch has been formed in Ilensden, in North Brabant. This extraordinary increase is principally attributed to the importance of the grand musical festival of last winter at the Hague, on which invasion the patronage of the King of the Netherlands was graciously granted. It was agreed upon that the next festival should take place in the Spring of 1S34i, in Amsterdam. Resolutions were passed hi fur- therance of the objects of the Society, and every thing promised a bril- liant career to the dev:-lopment of the musical capabilities of the Ne- therlanders.
Last week, the young and be wife of an English gentleman, attended by one or two women servants, went early in the morning from hor house in Scutari, to enjoy tlw coolness of a dip in the silver
tide a the Hosplhaan, Whilst bathing, some young Turkish officers, "true!: by her surpassing loveliness, in so interesting a situation, ap- proached, and stood ri vetted to the spot. The servants begged them to wit hd raw ; but, instead of complying with so unreasonable a request, they commenced saying so many tender things that the lady hollow excessively enraged, aod being a woman of uncommon spirit, she darted out of 11:-. water, soon changed her bathing attire for a morning dress, leaped into her carriage, and drove off straight to the barrarks, where she laid her el unplaitits before the Colonel, insisting that the officers shuuld be punished in her presence ! Guards were sent, and
the yotmg lit let were, traeod to the house of a friend, where they were rt breaklitst. The Cohhad, after reproarhing them in no men- shred terms, for dariag to intrude on the privileges or nn harem, told the lady that their foe was in her ha:Ms—they should receive the pittlis11- Invent fieeree.i. " said she, " to make sure of it, I will panish them myself." She then seized the thickest stick within sight, and by makhig au it active use of it for about a quarter of an hour, more or less, she convinced her gallant admirers of the truth of the proverb " Qu'd n'g a pus de rose sans epines." Alter that she again leaped into Ler carriage, waved her Lir hand to the Colonel, and drove home, highly delighted with the morning's adventure.—Con- stantinoidc Correspondent of dm Morning Herald.
The habit of eating fast and carelessly is supposed to have paralyzed Napoleou on two of the most critical occasions of his life—the battles of Borodino and Leipsie, which be might have converted into decisive and influential victories, by pushing his advantages as he was wont. On each of these occasions he is known to have been suffering from in- digestion. On the third day of Dresden, too, the German novelist floffinan, who was present in the town, asserts that the Emperor would have done notch more than he did, but for the effects of a shoulder of mutton stuffed with onions—a dish only to be paralleled by the pork-chops which Messrs. Thin-tell and Co. regaled on after com- pleting the murder of their friend Mr. Weare. —Mirror.
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