The Messager des Chanthres, received to-day, contains the following curious
paragraph—somewhat indebted, we should think, to the inge • nious liveliness of French colouring.
"A few days before the arrival of the Duke de Leuchtcnberg at Strasbourg, the Dutchess of Braganza was one Sunday at the Tuileries. On a sudden, his Majest:t , Louis Philippe, led her towards a window, and expressed a desire that the Duke de Nemours should marry the Queen Donna Maria ; but he had scarcely uttered a fee- words, when the Dutchess interrupted him, and said, I ought, Sire, to speak to von with more frankness than an ambassador would in the diplomatic situation in which I am placed ; but I love my daughter-in-law, Donna Maria, as if she was my own child.; I also love my brother, the Duke de Lenchtenberg. and cannot suffer you to repeat .a demand which can have no result, seeing the mutual affection that exists between Toy brother and the Queen of Portugal.' His Majesty, Louis Philippe. appeared greatly piqued at these words ; and orders were immediately despatched by telegraph to pre- vent, by all possible means, the entrance of the young Duke into France. Fortunatidy„ or unfortunately, he was already at Strasbourg, with a regular passport, and traveling; under the name of Captain Muller. Orders to quit France, however, were int-, mated to him by the Police-officers. • Yes,' said the young Duke, ' but not till I have passed through it. I am Captain Muller ; and if you are pleased to recognize is me another personage unjustly banished from France, employ force, put on me those irons, those handcuffs with which you threaten me, and thus drag me to the frontiers; but never with my consent.' After these words, he entered his carriage, and went to Metz. There the same threat and the same answer ; and it was thus he came as farina Paris, where he alighted at a readv•furnished hotel near the Place de Bourse. The nett day, a party of Police-officers, with a Commissary at their head, went and summosei the Duke to quit Paris without delay ; but he resisted, produced his passport, and de- fled them to execute the secret orders of which they stated-themselves to be the !earns. His sang froid, his firm and resolute tone, and the contempt he showed for such male- volent proceedings, overawed the Police-officers, and they retired. The Duke pro- ceeded to the house of his sister, the Dutchess of graganza, where he saw the Queen; Donna Maria ; and remained three days in Paris, and afterwards departed for HaNZE, where he waited for the illustrious travellers. As to the orders which emanated from the Palace of the Tuileries, they were not carried into execution. However, as it was necessary to satisfy ill humour, the Dutchess of Braganza and Queen Donna Masi& were refused the French vessel that was to have conveyed them to PortugaL And why this auger? Because the Queen of Portugal prefers the son of Prince Eugene to !be Duke de Nemours, a sou of his Majesty Louis-Philippe, King of the French."
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