Another Parisian Journal, the Charivari, has been added to the
hundreds seized since glorious July. Its offence, which it has not been informed of, appears to be a sarcastic letter supposed to have been written to the Prince Royal by Mademoiselle Virginie Dejazet, a frisky actress of the Palais Royal Theatre, complaining of his Highness having bestowed her name on a favourite mare. The fol- lowing is the concluding paragraph of the epistle, which has caused
much merriment :—" J'en esperer, mon Prince, (pie vous ferez droit a ma r&lam Lion. A defaut du nom de leurs vietoires que les Princes
donnent ordinuirement a Iona chevaux, et que veins seriez fort emba. rasse de dourer aux votres, vous pouvez trouver dans votre famine des noms de femme, ue fur-ce-que celui de votre respectable Wide Adelaide. Je ne kplis par pourquoi vous allez ainu.i thercher le mien. Ce tie peut-titre qu'utie marivalse pluisanterie. Or, de semblables farces sont indignes, je ne dis pas de votre esprit, mais de votre position sociale. A vingt elm! ans Napoleon avail &,ja donne it plusieurs villes et monuments, son Dorn qu'il devait plus tard dormer a un code. Jusqu a prosent, woos n'avez, routs, donne de nom qua one Jimmie Encore, est cc le mien." Besides the interference of the Attorney. General in this puerile affair, Alademoiselle Dejazet has been hi made }r1 I withi C. o disavow the letter in all our journals, and to threaten the a an action; a threat which she will be wise enough, no doubt, not to execute, for most of our Opposition prints are siding with the perse- cuted Charivari. One affirms that .lademoisc11e Dejazie has returned the Prince's compliments by bestowing one of his names, Itusoliti, on her poodle ; and time Corsaire announces. " Qua pour se veneer de Princesses Etiropeernies qui refusent set main, le Prince immariable va les mettre tomes dans ses ecuries."—Correspendent of the 411orsing Post.
AI. the Talleyland said the other day to his physician, when he cattle to see him on his arrival in Paris, '6 Welcome, dear doctor, welcome, for I have no use for your services." In fact, AI. de l'alleyrand is in most excellent health, although he has reached his sotb yeer.—Le Ca- binet de Lecteur.
The Paris vorresroondent of the liforning Chrenim le timenticums the fol. lowing circumstances relative to the last prosecution of the Arateamt.
" The edition; were much amazed ; lead over their paper, awl found it our of the noel moderate numbers they had ever published. They were in doubt- as to wbirit article 11411 exposed them to the vengeance of the law. It seems tutu the parquet, or office for Cluwil lilWycr., is ill the same doubt ; for whilst the h• :d assignation, se, ved at the alive of the paper, denounces one artivie, the utiaial notification of it in the Moniteur points out another altogether dill'eTent."
It appears that the right of painters to give or withhold permission to engrave their works, even when sold, which has been for some time the subject of warm discussion in this country, has revellery been brought under the considerathm of a legal tlibunal in Paris. " Does the right to have an eilgraving made from a picture belong to the per. chaser of the picture, or does it remain with the painter even lifter tl:e sale of his picture; and, by consequence, does an engraver who engraves a picture by the sole authority of the purchaser expose !dins( If to pro- secution for !dewy, either by the painter or by any one whom the painter may have empowered to engrave his work ? " This was the towstion brought before the Court with reference to an eneravieg of Gerard's picture of the Battle of Austerlitz. The Culla decided in favour of the painter's exclusive right.
A young heck, with light flaxen locks and moustache of the salvo line, wars last week placed at the bar of the 'Tribunal of Correct :ono I Felice in l';:risr. I dress was in the first style of fashion ; his central of
green was tied with a degree of the most studied elegance ; his under- sea:stye:t was white its the drifted snow ; malting was %I ilW■iT to his
toilet—even his gloves WPI'l• Of !be most approved tint. Iris Nut nil and he had come hem London. where he bed been t • clerk of an attorney ; but tine line mottling. I;is empleyer him with a stun of itioneyasomething under :Anti., te take to it - and thinking that IA! S11011111 like tir see a little of th,. work
this sun, would him the nireins of doing so. he put t: his pocket and ! olted. In changing his country he elso name, and arrived itt Paris unthe t hat of Ilarcourt. • 1: fart um., ever, for the young votary of pleasure, he did not long preserve I.:- nito ; for the owner of the money not appioving of the nee-
ii which it was about to be spent, immediately follewed the discovered his summer retreat, gave information to the relentless • • .• and had him taken into custody. this offence having been committee in England, was not within the cognizance of the laws of France ; as time prisoner had obtained Ins passport in a false name, he Lao ,jected himself to the .54th article of the Civil Code, and was at!, ea ingly sentenced to two months' imprisoinnent.—French Paper.
On the morning of the 24th ult., a man about fifty years of age came into the shop of a watchmaker in the Rue St. Vonore, Paris, in Ins dres- sing-gown, as if he had just left his apartments, and tusked the price of a watch. Ile wanted, he said, both a good and handsome one, as it was for his son, who had just come home from college, and whose conduct merited a handsome present. The watchmaker replied, " Very a ell, Sir, here are three or four, make choice." " They are indeed very handsome," said the new customer " if you will allow me, I will take the four to my son, and lie shall choose for himself. Will you accom- pany me, or let one of your young people do so; who can bring back the other three, and the price of the one selected, which you say will he 51/0 francs ?" The customer and the watchmaker's clerk left the shop accordingly, proceeding towards Saint Roche Having arrived at a large gate, the man in the dressing-gown knocked ; the door was opened; and, in the excess of his politeness, the gentleman bowed the youth in first: but no sooner was he in, than the other pulled the side gate together again, left the dupe in the court perfectly thunderstruck, whilst he made the best of his way off with the watches.—Le Cabinet de Lecteur.
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