The Comte de Chambord is to be buried near Goritz,
on Monday, in the Monastery of the Franciscans at Castagna.vicca, where his grandfather, Charles X., already lies. The funeral will be a solemn one, for the good Prince did in some way manage to impress all who knew him with an effect of lofti- ness of character, partly due, no doubt, to immoveable pre- possessions on small matters, in which he could be as inexorable as if he were Destiny herself; partly to his intrinsic indif- ference to the successful issue of the cause of which he was the- representative. The political enthusiasts for the Comte de Chambord cannot be very numerous,—though it is said that the Legitimists are subscribing to enable a certain number of Legitimist artisans to attend the funeral,—for though ideas are sometimes impracticable, the multitude are not given to assuming that all impracticabilities are ideas, and it would take that, to make the Comte de Chambord's political pretensions in any sense popular with the masses. Still, the phlegmatic excellence of the Comte de Chambord's character has certainly produced more of a general impression than we should have thought it possible for one to produce whose name and flag recalled so many painful memories. At least without a very definite genius of his own, no man so weighted by bad traditions has gained popularity. And a very definite genius of his own can hardly be attributed to the deceased Bourbon.
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