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Show Kreneti Decent . A Pans correspondent say : Although Trx-hu is neither a geDeral nor a great statc-un. he is a teixeajaD. I ani. the etore. surprised sur-prised that be allows oosc-.-tie criea tures of the Ilm press to be puolio-.v sold in the streets aai exhibited in the kiosks. During ttie time that she occupied the throne in the m j-t scan-dai-ioving town, no scandal was ever whL-pied against her. She was fjnd. it is true, ot dre-s. but she a- a good mother aud a good wife. Now txa: she and her tnends are in exi'e. "lives ef the Bonapartes" are hawked about which iu England wou.d bring their authors under Lord Campbell's Camp-bell's statute. In one caricature she is represented as stark naked, with Prince Joitmlle sketching her. In another, called ''the Spanish cow,'' she is made a sort of female Centaur. In another she is dancing the can can. and throwing her petticoats over her head, before King illiam, who is drinking champagne, seated on a sofa, wh.le her hu-band is iu a cage huug up to the wall. Ihe scandaiuus caricatures cari-catures have not even the merit of being be-ing funny ; they are a reflection upon French chivalry, and ou that of i'ro-chu. i'ro-chu. What wonid he say if the government gov-ernment wuich succeeJs him were to allow his own wife to be insulted in this eowardiy manner? |