melancholy, which so transformed his whole appearance that I should hardly have recognized him. He spoke in glowing terms of the United States, of the customs and manners of the Americans. During the short time we sat at breakfast I formed a very favorable opinion of

him.

Notwithstanding these sentiments, and his love for his wife, Jerome soon afterward yielded to his brother's wishes, and married the Princess Frederica Caroline of Wirtemberg.. Of the first meeting between Jerome and his new bride, Madame Junot gives the following interesting particulars: the princess came to Paris, having been previously married to the prince by proxy, Marshal Bessieres acting in that capacity. She was sent to the house of Junot at Raincy, where Madame Junot did the honors of reception:

"We walked with Jerome in the garden of the posada; and before parting, Junot, who conceived he might use freedom with him from the circumstance of my having known him when a boy, endeavored to dissuade him from resisting the emperor's wishes. But Jerome answered him, with noble firmness, that he considered himself bound by honor, and that, having obtained the "We were all in the billiard-room, from consent of his mother and elder brother, he did not whence we could see all that passed in the drawfeel himself so very blamable for taking the step ing-room, being separated from it only by a he had. My brother will hear me' said he; 'he range of pillars, with statues in the intercolumis kind, he is just. Even admitting that I have niations. The prince was to enter by the music committed a fault in marrying Miss Patterson room. Already the rolling of the carriage without his consent, is this the moment for in- wheels in the avenue was heard, when Madame flicting punishment? And upon whose head Lallemand catching hold of my dress, exclaimed, will that punishment alight? Upon that of 'Do you know it has just crossed my mind that my poor, innocent wife! No, no; surely, my the sight of me at this moment may make a sinbrother will not thus outrage the feelings of one gular impression upon the prince! I had better of the most respectable families of the United retire.' 'Why?' Because the last time he saw States, and inflict at the same time a mortal me was at Baltimore, with Miss Patterson, with wound upon a creature who is as amiable as she whom I was very intimate. Do you not think is beautiful!' He then showed us a fine minia- that seeing me again, on such an occasion as the ture of Madame Jerome Bonaparte. The fea-present,might recall a great deal that has passed?' tures were exquisitely beautiful, and a circumstance which immediately struck me, as well as Junot, was the resemblance they bore to those of the Princess Borghese. I remarked this to Jerome, who informed me that I was not the only person who had made the observation; that, in fact, he himself, and many Frenchmen who had been at Baltimore,had remarked the resemblance. I thought I could perceive in the face of Madame Jerome Bonaparte more animation than in the Princess Borghese. I whispered this to Junot, but he would by no means admit it; he had not got the better of his old impressions.

Indeed I do!' I exclaimed, thrusting her into the adjoining room, for at this moment a noise in the hall announced the prince's arrival, and in a few seconds the door was opened, and Marshal Bessieres introduced him. The prince was accompanied by the officers of his household, among whom were Cardinal Maury, the Chief Almoner, and M. Alexander le Camus, who already possessed great influence over him, and who felt it advisable not to lose sight of him in a moment to which his advice had given rise, and which might prove important to his future fate. I do not believe that Jerome would ever have abandoned Miss Patterson if he had not been urged to it by counsels which he had not strength of mind enough to resist. The prince's attendants remained in the music-room during the interview.

"Judge then,' resumed Jerome, replacing the charming portrait in his bosom, 'judge whether I can abandon a being like her, especially when I can assure you that to a person so exquisitely beautiful is united every quality that can render a woman amiable. I only wish my brother "The saloon of Raincy seemed to be made would consent to see her-to hear her voice but expressly for the interview which was now to for one single moment. I am convinced that her take place. The princess was seated near the triumph would be as complete as that of the chimney, though there was no fire. On the amiable Christine, whom the emperor at first re-prince's entrance she rose, advanced two steps pulsed, but at length liked as well as his other toward him, and made the compliment of recepsisters-in-law. For myself, I am resolved not to tion with equal grace and dignity. Jerome yield the point. Strong in the justice of my bowed neither well nor ill: he seemed to be there cause, I will do nothing which hereafter my con- because he had been told 'you must go there.' science may make me repent.' To this Junot He approached the princess, who seemed at this made no reply. He had set out with an en- moment to have recovered all her presence of deavor to prevail on Jerome to conform to the mind, and all the calm dignity of the woman emperor's will; but, in the course of conversa- and the princess. After the exchange of a few tion, having learned the particulars of the case, words, she offered the prince the arm-chair and feeling interested for the young couple, he which had been placed near her, and a converbegan to think, as he afterwards confessed to me, sation was opened upon the subject of her jourthat he should be doing wrong in exhorting Je-ney. It was short, and closed by Jerome's risrome to a line of conduct which, in fact, would be highly dishonorable. At the expiration of two hours we took leave of Jerome and continued our journey."

ing and saying, 'My brother is waiting for us: I will not longer deprive him of the pleasure of making acquaintance with the new sister I am about to give him!'

"The princess smiled, and accompanied the a time not a single bottle of Bordeaux was prince as far as the entrance of the music-room, drank in Westphalia. We cannot say how whence he retired with his attendants. As soon much or how little truth there is in the story. as she had lost sight of him, the color in her But the jolly time was rudely broken in upon cheeks increased so violently that I feared the Jerome was called bursting of a blood-vessel. She acknowledged by grim-visaged war. indisposition; we gave her air and eau-de-Co- upon to take part in the fatal Russian camlogne; in a few minutes she recovered her self-paign, and he shared in the reverses of his possession. This fainting fit, though laid to the illustrious brother. His kingdom was taken account of heat and fatigue, was certainly occasioned by the violent constraint the princess had for some hours put upon herself. The prejudices of a German princess against an unequal alliance, joined to the almost antipathy borne by every German to the name of Bonaparte, and, together with these ample causes, the knowledge of the previous marriage of the man to whom she was about to give her hand, were sufficient to overpower a more resolute person than the Princess Catherine of Wirtemberg; and, in truth, I considered it very natural not only that she should be indisposed, but sufficiently so to retard her departure from Raincy, and with it the ceremony, which might appear to her almost sacrilegious, but which was to set the seal upon her future destiny. I have heard the devotedness of the queen of Westphalia very highly eulogized, and, in fact, it is truly noble in her pecul

iar situation."

With all his regret for his lost American bride, however, Jerome lived happily with his second wife. He had an agreeable time at Hesse Cassel, the capital of his new kingdom of Westphalia, which had been created for him. He was now twenty-two years of age, and he speedily gained the good-will of his subjects. He made friends of the Jews, and by according full privileges to them, he found them ready to lend him money. He confided much of the administration of public affairs to them. But his subjects related horrible stories of him. They circulated a report that he was in the habit of taking baths of pure Bordeaux wine, and that when he had bathed, he had the wine drawn off into casks or bottles, and sold to the public. This report obtained so much credit, that for

from him by the Medes and Persians of Europe, and he sought refuge in Paris. When that city surrendered to the allies, Jerome removed with his wife to Trieste, where he abode until the return of Napoleon from Elba. He immediately joined his brother and obtained the command of a division of the re-organized imperial army. He had the honor of commencing the attack upon the English position at Waterloo, and greatly distinguished himself on that memorable day (18th June, 1815). On the final downfall of Napoleon, Jerome retired to Wirtemberg, and lived in peaceful seclusion at the Castle of Elvangen; subsequently he resided at Vienna and at Trieste. Three children who died young; Matilde, in 1819, and Nawere born to him; viz.: Napoleon in 1814, Anatole Demidoff, but was subsequently dipoleon in 1833. Matilde married Prince vorced from him. She presided at the imperial court of her cousin, Napoleon III, until his marriage with Eugenie de Montijo. Napoleon (Plou-plon) married the Princess Clotilda of Sardinia.

On the elevation of the present emperor of the French to supreme power, Jerome returned to Paris, and was declared heir-presumptive to the throne. He was allotted state apartments in the Palais Royal, with a handsome income, and appointed governor of the Hotel des Invalides. His resemblance to the great Bonaparte helped to revive the traditions of the first empire, and gave a prestige to the court of his nephew. But the man himself was a good-natured nonentity : voila tout. He has died at a ripe old age.

G. P. R. JAMES' LAST EVENING IN AMER- | nently in Philadelphia. Irving was with us, and ICA. A correspondent of The World writes: The evening before he sailed from these shores, never to return, I spent with him at the Union Place Hotel. He was in a great flow of spirits. His plans for the remainder of his life were settled. He was going to Venice as consul-general for the Adriatic, a position worth some £3,000 per annum. In four years he would be entitled to his retiring pension, and then he would return to America and take up his residence perma

when the two friends shook hands, it was with the expectation of meeting again at the expiration of this time. They have met at the end of James was relating to us, among other things, the long journey sooner than either expected. certain leave-taking occurrences, at Richmond, on his departure from that city. The mere mention of the cordiality shown him by the Virginians quite overpowered him, and in a choked voice he exclaimed, "They're a warm-hearted people-they're a warm-hearted people!"

From The Evening Post.
HO FOR THE POLE !

Continued from No. 836.

epithet Grynæus, applied by Æneas to Apollo, designating the "noonday sun," and was adopted into the language of the commercial Greeks of Marseilles in consequence of their intimate relations with the Phrygian and Phoenician mariners.

The second was the Norwegian discovery of Greenland, variously set down at the dates A.D. 770, or 835, or 982.

IT is more than possible that men of the present generation will see a great problem solved and the stars and stripes, or unionjack, floating from the North Pole. Whoever reaches that extreme point, however will find the remnants of a blue, white, and orange The third, the voyage of Nicholas and Anflag fluttering from it, if the winds of two cen- thony Zeni, who-according to one account turies have not torn its bunting into shreds obtained a ship in Ireland, and sailed and blown them away. After a few intro- thence in 1380-'8. Steering to the northductory remarks as to the curiosities of arc-west, they arrived at a populous and flourtic navigation, the following list of arctic ishing country in 58° north, between Iceland voyagers and navigators will demonstrate and Greenland, unknown to the English and that the idea of a polar sea, and the arrival at the pole, is not a visionary project, and that if not accomplished at this time it has been more than once nearly attained in former centuries.

It is by no means chimerical to assert that Pytheas, the great Grecian navigator of the fourth and third century B.C. (from Phocis by descent, of Marseilles by birth,) was the first arctic discoverer, for, by a comparison of his narrative with those of the earliest Scandinavian historians, as well as the records of modern cosmographers and navigators, it is satisfactorily shown that he discovered either Iceland or Greenland, or an island in the North Atlantic, which island was the Atlantis of the Greeks, the source of intellectual refinement and the cradle of the fabulous divine intelligences. There are many reasons to suppose that this Atlantis was the cultivated Greenland, colonized by the Scandinavians of the middle ages. One of the clearest proofs of this fact is the hypothesis that the name Greenland is not derived from the Danish or Scandinavian word Green, Green, but rather from the Greek word Grian (pronounced Greean), signifying Apollo, or the sun in his full strength-the very term applied by the native Greenlanders to their country, as is attested by more than one writer on this interesting subject. Thus, the natives call their island, Succanunga, "Land of Suecanuk, the sun in its warmest (their fishing) season," or the "Sunny Land;" and the Icelandic and Norwegian colonists may have confounded the "Land of Grian " (the term applied to Greenland as well by the natives as by the enlightened Irish, who had, it is asserted, commercial relations in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with the islands of the Northern Atlantic, since Grian signifies, in the Celtic dialect, "the strongest power of the sun,")-with their own Green (pronounced alike) Land-Greenland-which is now altogether inapplicable to that locality. This Grian of the Celts is doubtless to be traced to the Phrygian-Greek

continental Europeans, which they called West Friesland. It is delineated upon maps, engraved about 1700, as lying between 270 and 32° W. and 60° and 64° N. Frobisher is said to have touched at one of its ports in one of his voyages to Greenland in search of gold. The people of Britain and Ireland were represented in the Irish histories-(destroyed by order of Queen Elizabeth)-as trading thither in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries for the sake of its fisheries, when all at once, and shortly after its discovery, this extensive territory, with all its polished inhabitants, dwelling in a hundred towns, was swallowed up by the ocean. This period was peculiarly calamitous at the far north, and pestilence and famine, earthquakes and inundations, walked hand in hand, diffusing terror and destruction. As a proof that this is not mere conjecture or fable, Pennant assures us that "such was the fate of the nine isles of Gouberman which lay about four leagues from Sandaness between Patrixfiord and Cape Nort (W. and N.W. of Iceland), all of which suddenly disappeared" while, at the very time when he wrote, a new island was forming by volcanic action, not far from Reickenes, an island off the S. W. extremity of Iceland.

We New Yorkers should bear in mind that long exemption from the horrible visitation of earthquakes does not prove that our district has never known them, or that it never will be rent by their convulsions. How very few even of reading men recall that in 1663, just two centuries since, there was a terrible earthquake in Canada, almost rivalling those which desolated the valley of the Mississippi, in 1811-'12, whose effects were experienced throughout New England and the New Netherlands, cur own state! So says Charlevoix, in his remarks on the phenomena of 1662-3.

Over this lost West Friesland, or sunken land of Buss, rolls in tempestuous weather a high and terrible sea, the terror of mariners, pouring its angry floods between Iceland and

selves as victims upon the altar of Mahadeo | mense stones brought down from the over(the great God) in the patriarchic belief that looking mountains by avalanches, every year the more valuable the sacrifice the more acceptable it would be to the deity.