Auguste Beauharnois, Duke of Leuchtenberg, youngest child of the son of Josephine (who was for a brief time the Empress of France) and of the Princess Auguste Amelia, daughter of Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria,

-an admirable cavalier, in truth, but as far inferior then to Marie Nicolawna as a common soldier to an emperor.

"Is it possible?" said the czar to himself, as he sent for the colonel, with the design of dismissing him to Munich. But at the moment when he was about to crush him with a word, he stopped at the sight of his daughter fainting in her caleche. "There is no longer a doubt," thought the czar; "'tis indeed he.”

And turning his back upon the stupified stranger, he returned with Marie to the imperial palace. For six weeks, all that prudence, tempered with love and severity, could inspire, was essayed to destroy the image of the colonel in the heart of the princess. At the end of the first week she was resigned; at the end of the second she wept; at the end of the third she wept in public; at the end of the fourth she wished to sacrifice herself to her father; at the end of the fifth she was dying.

Meanwhile, the colonel, seeing himself in disgrace at the court of his host, without daring to confess to himself the cause, did not wait for his dismissal to return to his regiment. He was on the point of setting out for Munich, when an aide-de-camp of the czar came for him. "I should have set out yesterday," he said to himself; "I might have avoided what awaits me.

At the first flash, save yourself from the thunderbolt." He was ushered into the cabinet, where kings only are allowed to enter. The emperor was pale, and his eye was moist; but his air was firm and resolute.

"Colonel duke," said he, penetrating him with his glance, "you are one of the handsomest officers in Europe. It is said also, and I believe it is true, that you possess an elevated mind, a thorough education, a lively taste for the arts, a noble heart, and a loyal character,—what think you of the Grand Duchess, my daughter Marie Nicolæwna ?"

This point-blank question dazzled the young man. It is time to say that he admired and loved the princess, without being fully aware of it.

"The Princess Marie, sire!" exclaimed he, reading, at last, his own heart, without daring to read that of the czar. "Your anger would crush me if I told you what I think of her; and I should die of joy if you permitted me to say it."

"Ah! you love her; 'tis well," resumed the czar, with a benignant smile; and the imperial hand, from which the duke was waiting his death-warrant, delivered to the colonel the brevet of general aide-decamp of the emperor; the brevets of commandant of the cavalry of the guards, and of the regiment of hussars; of chief of the corps of cadets and of the mining engineers; of president of the academy of arts, and member of the academy of sciences, of the universities of St. Petersburg, of Moscow, of Keasan, of the council, of the military schools, &c. All this,

with the title of imperial highness, and several millions of revenue.

“Now,” said the czar to the young man, who was beside himself with joy, "will you quit the service of Bavaria, and become the husband of the Princess Marie ?"

The young officer could only fall on his knees, and bathe with his tears the hands of the emperor.

"You see that I also love my daughter," said the father, pressing his son-in-law in his arms.

The 14th of July following, the Grand Duchess was restored to health, to life; and the Duke Beauharnois de Leuchtenberg espoused her in the presence of the representatives of the royal families of Europe. On Tuesday, November 5, 1852, the Duke of Leuchtenberg died at the age of thirty-five; worthy, to the last, of his brilliant destiny, and leaving to Marie Nicolawna eternal regrets.-Translated from the "Gazette Francais."

It is said that the Duke of Leuchtenberg did not enjoy the splendid prison in which, by his marriage, he had incarcerated himself; nor did he willingly submit to the domestic tyranny of his imperial and imperious father-in-law. This produced many disagreements; and he was continually under arrest for persisting in the freedom of appearing in his wife's boudoir in his dressing-gown, for smoking in her presence, or for buttoning his military coat otherwise than according to the emperor's regulations. So that not even the mutual affection between him and his wife pre

vented him from congratulating the Duke de Bordeaux, when a proposition for his marrying another of the daughters of Russia, was broken off, that he had "escaped the cage in which he himself was enclosed."

THE "HOLY PLACES."

IN the year 1819, an understanding was come to by Louis XVIII. of France, and the Emperor Alexander of Russia, to endeavour to obtain some arrangement from the Porte, which, under the combined guarantee of the three powers, might put an end to the constant disputes between the Greeks and Latins, might define the prerogatives, and establish a common enjoyment of what have been called "the holy places." The former acted on the ground of his being the "hereditary protector of the Catholics in the East," and the latter as "the sovereign of the greater number of the followers of the Greek Church;" and negotiations were opened to that effect at Paris, St. Petersburg, and Constantinople. Count Marcellus was charged by the French government to commence negotiations with the patriarch of Jerusalem and the general patriarch of Constantinople. As a preliminary step, it was suggested, by common accord, that two agents should be

sent to Jerusalem, to procure all the information necessary to complete the negotiation. M. de Marcellus was sent on behalf of the French government; he was furnished with letters from the synod, as also with necessary firmans from the Porte, to aid him in his investigations. M. Daschkoff went on the same mission for the Russian government; and the result of their inquiries, and conferences with the vicars of the patriarchs, gave abundant hope of their respective governments being able to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. The information they had procured on the spot was taken as the basis of an arrangement. The negotiators were actively engaged when they were interrupted by the Greek revolution, which broke out in 1821; the struggle for independence which followed, and the agitation, which survived even the battle of Navarino, prevented the governments from resuming these negotiations. From the facts collected by M. de Marcellus, it appeared that the sanctuaries, or churches built on the site of the great miracles of the Redemption, had been founded by St. Helena and her son Constantine the Great. They were destroyed by the sovereign of Persia in 614, re-established by the Emperor Heraclius, and some years after were taken possession of by the Kalif Omar, who permitted the faithful to have access to them. They were subsequently destroyed by Amurath, and re-established by his mother Mary, a Christian, in 1009. One of the articles of capitulation obtained by Lusignan from Saladdin was in favour of the Christian pilgrims. In