The fourteenth birth-day of the Duke of Bordeaux has been
kept by the Parisian Royalists with considerable splendour, at private balls, fetes, and banquets. At some of these, no ladies were admitted who did not wear white and green feathers, and all gentlemen wore white cockades.
On Sunday eveninc., there was a mutiny at St. Pelagie, in Paris, amongst the prisoners confined for political offences, on account of the return of some other prisoners who had been removed. The night, however, passed in quietness. The next morning, the rebellion was renewed with increased violence, and assumed a more serious character. The rioters broke up some of the furniture, and attempted to force open the doors ; they set fire to the straw mattresses, and threatened to murder some of the turnkeys who endeavoured to reduce them to order. The appearance of a body of the Municipal Guard, however, brought them to their senses, and they retired to their rooms, in obedience to the command of the Commissary of Police.— Galignani's Messenger.
The Marquis de L., residing in the neighbourhood of the Opera, was so much attached to the ladies, and rewarded the favours they bestowed upon him so liberally, that on reaching the age of between seventy-two and seventy-five, his fortune became reduced to 35,000 francs a year; a very small pittance for a man who had, it is said, been able to lavish 80,000 francs a year upon a single mistress, and to make her presents in furniture and jewellery to the amount of 150,000 francs. He became wearied of life ; but, wishing before quitting the world to bestow upon a female, of whom he bad become enamoured, the whole remains of his dilapidated property, he made a will in due form, constituting her his residuary legatee ; and last week he wrote a codicil, in the form a letter, revoking in her favour all specific and pecuniary legacies ; but from a distraction of mind which may be easily conceived, he dated it 1st of October 1834. Scarcely was this letter finished, when he shot him- self with a double-barrelled pistol, and expired instamly—Galignani's Messenger. Machureau, an old offender, now in the sixty-ninth year of his age, who was sentenced by the Criminal Tribunal of Paris to twenty-four years' hard labour at the hulks for robbery, and had undergone the whole of his punishment, was so little cured of his evil propensities, that not long after his liberation be was detected in passing base money. On being arrested, his lodging was searched, and all the necessary imple- ments for coining were found. Ile was brought before the Court of Assizes on Saturday ; and being found guilty both of coining and ut- tering base money, he was again consigned to the hulks for twenty years.
The last census of the population of Paris carries the number of the inhabitants to 785,000, who occupy 29,000 houses. This is about 27 individuals for each house.
In the night of the 21st September, the statue of St. John Nepo- mucene, on the bridge at the old gate of Laecken, in Brussels, which is generally considered as a masterpiece, was mutilated in such a manner that it is now a mere trunk of no value. The Police are said to have a clue to discover the perpetrators.—Brussels Paper.
A plan has been adopted by the Dutch Government for enlarging the port of Rotterdam, establishing extensive warehouses, and rendering that city a great commercial entrepot.
Previous page
