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THE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK.

THE eccentric Charles , Duke of Brunswick, long rcsident in Genova, diod thora on 18th August, from un attack of upoploxy. All tho duko's lunded and personal proporty, including his jewels and tho properly retained ut Bruns- wick sinco 1830, aro boquoathed to tho city of Gonova, Mr Smith, an Englishman, is nomi- nated udministrator-gonorol, and reoolvoa a bo quost of £40,000. Tho will is dolod Gonova,

5th March, 1871, and is written us woll as signed 1 by tho duko. Tho voluo of tho real proporty loft by tho duko is estimuted at £1,000,000 ster- ling. Part of tho proporty is situated in Gonova. Too lato duko, bom 30th Octobor, 1801, suc-

ceeded his father, under tho guardianship J

of tho Prince Regent, afterwards King George IV., of Groat Britain, on 16th

June, 1816 ¡ and usconded tho throno I on 30th Ootobor, 1823. On tho breaking out of a riot in the city of Brunswick, 8th September, 1830, ho waa obliged to floe from tho dueby, and by a resolution poseed by tho German Diet on 2nd Doecmbor, in tbo samo year, ho was declared " unfit to govern." His younger brother, William, tho present duke,

succeeded him at tho rcquost of the Diet. With,

reference to the woalth left to tho city by this I extraordinary testament, only un approximate idea can us yet be ascertained of its amount.1 It is roughly placed ut from two to three million francs. In tho cases found in tho apartments of

the deceased woro gold and jewels to the amount |

of 30,000,000 francs. In two of theso boxes, which it was impossible to opon for some timo, no key to thom having been found, wore dis- covered Pacific railway bonds to tho amount of 16,000,000 franos, which, together with tho interest thereon for throo years, will represent a good round sum. The German consul at Genova has received a telegram from Prince Bismarck, stating that the luto duko's per-

sonal property in .Germany amounts to I 65,000,000 francs, - and that tho municipal. I

council of Genova is at liberty to moko such disposal of it as it thinks fit. The following skotch of the carcor of tho lato duke will bo found interesting. Tho Duke of Brunswick was tho last waif which the ebbing tido of French fashion left on tho soil of Gor-

many. His foverish and vianbond exiatence ' commenced when Gootho and Schiller woro in tho zenith of their literary career, ond tho re» action across tho Rhino against Vareadles and ali ita works lind well set in. This reliction was grcutly nideel by tho victories of tho French nrraie» under the genorala of tho Ropublio and the First N ivpoloon. Tho battlo of Jona took

place when tlio duke, who has just died, was , two yenrs old. On the doy following tho ono on which tho nowa of it roochod Brunswick, ho

wns hastily transported to S woden, whero, at ' tho ngo of four, ho lost hi« mother. From hor

bunds ho pahsoil into tho tutolngo of a French t emigrS-n marquis who was brought up at; tho feet of tho Mnr 1ml do Richeliou. The, yoting princo's futhor, tho orgunisor of tho Dcath'a Hoad Brunswick Hussars, WOB too muoh absorbed in military sobornes to countoruct tho tonchings of tho oxilod nobloman. Quatre Bras, at which tho founder of tho Black Rogimont fell, placed Charlea Fiodoriok ut tho bond of tlio duchy. Tho youthful hoir bocanio, ponding ¡lia minority, a ward of tho " bust-wigged prince in Christendom," who waa his unoloin-low and' first cousin. Accotnpntiiod by tho Fronob. marquis, His Sereno Higlmosa wont to London wlien tho Allied Sovereigns woro thero, to atudy' lifo nt tho Court of tho Rcgont ond finish his' education. Ho wns thrown into congoniul soil,. Tho exomplo ol tho Princo of Tailors waa not thrown avvuy on him. Ula Sorono Highness* oacupudes, and his greon-rooiu iidvcnturea and vv ¡Id doings in a lodging ho bud in tho New road, furnished a curious chapter in a cause calibre which was hold in Parla in 1870. In. 1823 Ohurloa Frodoriok becoming tho ubaoluto mualor of sovorul hundred tliousund Gormans, returned to livo in stnto. Tho quiot Uruna wiokers nt length roso in revolt ngoinat their painted prince, deposed and oxiled him. Whon ho was thus bei eft of his duchy, ho went to London ¡ but, finding tho generation of Brummel pasBod uvvay, ho did not sottla thoro. Ho oventuiilly olootod to domioilo in Pillia, mid bought tho boneo nonr tho Folio Bennion, in which Lolu Mnntoz lived whon Mrs Urald. His diamonds, hia nigs, hia extraordi- nary équipages, his iivurico (for ua yoors rolled on ho grow misorly to oxcoae), and lila prcoau« tiona against burglurB, woro for a while the town t ilk. His poruquo wns ohaiigod onco a month. In tho conreo of tho your tho Duko went through, nil tho sbados botwoon jot bluok und flaxon. Tho comploxion waa mudo to euit tho hair, which, considering Unit thoio waa a thiok coat of enamel luid on tho dnko's fnee, was not a work ol diflloulty. Tho diamonds used to bo exhibited in tlio Grand Oporu or tho Palais Royal Tlioati'o. Somo of thuin woro stolon four yenrs ago by an English valot skilled in tho art of milking "boautiful for over." His Sorono Highness' favorito ourringo wns a yellow ono, tho color of u buttorcup. Ho hod a fancy for cronm-color und pio-bald lloraos, und for pages in eccentric livorios, Tho luto war mid tlio consequent tie-go drove) Charles Frodoriok out of Paris, and tho Oom Hinno provonlod him returning to hia roanpiuk polaco. Ho fourod unotlicr inaurrootion, and had au uncomfortable notion thut lho insurgents might aoizo him as a hostage. Tho last two yenra of his lifo woro spont at Genova, whoro, ii would appoar, ho got into tho hands of an American magnétiser. Tlio duko was plonsant mid coiivorautional with HIOBO whom ho know, a very limited cirolo, by tho way, for ho novor wont into what is called society, associating moro with thoao whom ho know, ua legal advi«or, agent, di'iimiitio artist, or dealer in precious stonos ; in fast, people who aro not generally tho intimato companions of royal princes. Ho visited tho Emperor Napoleon occasionally in tbo morning. Hu iiBcd to Bay tho lîmpiro hull made Paris his homo. His Uotol in the .'Yvonne Friodlund, a quoor pink conalrnetton bristling with iron spikes und cugod with iron burs, ia ono of tho sighta of Paris to this day. Amongst tho many oui'ontrioitios of tho Into duko was that of plac- ing his house in a sort of castle uko dofonoo. Thoro uro iron doors and gntovvuys, and un ¡ron room for his treasures. In addition, thoro aro or woro, a numhor of anvngo dogo in tlio gordon. No ono carod to onll on his Royal Highness unox poutodly ¡ besides whioh ho was very sparing of Ino invitations. No uno over hoard of bia giving u dinner ut his own house. Perhaps tho most inexplicable of his habits und customs was that of what is familiarly nailed turning night into day. Ho got out of boil about 3 p m., took his bulli, and attended to his compli- cated loilotto. At this timo of lho day ho would receive, whon in town, his ooiilklenlial friond mid advisor, Mr Smith, to whom ho has loft a million of francs. Ho might breakfast about 5 p.m., aftor whioh ho would tuko a drivo in tho ltois do Boulogne. As lho duko was a patron of artists, ho perhaps passed au hour or two with thut olnss of Parisian society. At tltoatro timo lho duko might generally bo scon in a box wherever a populur piece waa playing. Tbo thoatro was his grout rosouroo, uko that of another of our pusaod-nwiiy " originals," Princo Domidoir. Aa midnight approached l.o who had ronounccd crown and courts proccodod to ono of tho familiar restaurants of tlio boulovarda, gonorully tho Café Anglais, lo dino.

A POINT of considerable ¡mportanoo in rola lion to commoroinl law was decided by tho

Judgo of tho Liverpool County Court on the' . 30th August lust. A olnim WHS mudo by Messrs Jourdain und Oo., merchants, of London, against a Liverpool corn merchant named Moore, for £29 16s, alleged to bo duo to them. Tho plain tills had sold tho dofondunts a cargo of Hour, to bo " equal to eiimplo," but on tho arrivul of tho latter rojcclcd it on tho ground that it was inforior to tho sample, wlioroupon tho matter was reforred to arbitration, ami tho defendant was awarded nn ullowuneoof Gd por 280 lbs. -He refuîcd lo accopt this, however, and tho flour was eold, tho plaintiffs losing £2916s, whioh waa tho ground of action. For tho defendant it was contended Hint tho contract was for flour equal to sample, and this condition not being com- plied with, tho dofondant wus at liberty . to ropudinto tho arrangement. Tho Judgo decided that tho contract waa ono for tho solo of speedie goods, and that tho expression " os per samplo" was a warranty, aud not a condition, und there foro tho defendant hod no right to rejeot the flour, his romody boing of another kind. Tho plaintiff was awarded a vordict for tho (full

amount.

Lovüits of romaneo will bo pleased to hear that tho vendetta which is generally supposed lo bo confinad to Corsica has been transplanted to Louisiana, in tho United States, whero-it nourishes with tho tuppiest und most ' fatal results. A Now Orleans correspondent of tho Philadelphia Bress writes to that paper, suyings -" Wo have a worso custom, if there is a worso, in Louisiana than duolling, and that', is the túrriblo family fouds of vendotta whiph l'osult in almoat total annihilation of mal'omom borB of families-tho tolul wiping out of family nomos. The vendetta is carried on to a groat extent among the Italians residing in this city, ospcoiully thoso hailing from tho islaud of Sicily. But tho regular Louisiana vondetta'occurs "rin isolated parishes. Toko, for instance, thetadrthern part of Louisiana, bordering tho Stuto'of Arkan- sas- Oaroll Morehouso, or Union parishes-and you will find that ovory family has sustained a loss or losses from this terrible vendetta. Go up the Machiba river to Monroe and then 'go sixty miles further to tho Bayou Bartholomew, and from this bayou to tho border, aud-ybu will find almost avery plantation run byr a widow,, thoir husbands having been killed, pff by family fouds. A man will lmvo a'personal quorrel with another which will in,tho. ond result in tho death of ono of the party i°the next generation takes it up, and so on down;to throo or four generations, until finally thefp.aro no more molos left to coutume the'quarrel. This," adds the writer, " is a lawless 'state; of aooiety for a religioUB oommunity." -It'!is rather lawless, but the'really ead consequences of the vendetta system will not bo fully realizod until woman is placed on an equality with man, when Bbo will no doubt carry on his quarrell as well OB her own, and there will soon bo neither malo nor fournie left in any district where'the vendetta prevails. ,. vji.T

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