The Dutchess DE BERM, to the infinite rage and mortification
of the Carlists, was safely delivered of a daughter on the 10th of May. The official documents relative to this event were received in Paris on Sunday last, and copies of them were transmitted to the Foreign Ambassadors and inserted in the Moniteur. They contain some amusing particulars. At about half-past three in the morning, a crowd of doctors, magistrates, commanders of gar- risons, and presidents "of legal and commercial tribunals, were summoned to attend in the room adjoining the one in which the ' Dutchess lay. The following is an extract from the official . ac-
Count of what then took place.
. "Dr. Dubois, General Bugeaud, and M. Delord, were in the room when the pains first came on. and declared to the other witnesses that the Dutchess De Berri hart been de-
livered, at twenty minutes before three o'clock. After suffering but a very short time; that they saw her in labour, and receiving the assistance of Dr. Deneux. and Dr. Meniere, Dr. Dubois remaining in the apartment till the delivery. General Begeaud' then entered, and asked the Datehess whether she would receive the witnesses? She answered-' Yes, as soon as the child is washed and dressed.'
" A few minutes afterwards Madame d'Hautefort came out, by desire of the Dutchess, to request that the witnesses would enter, whiell we did immediately. We found the. Datelines lying in her bed, with a new-born child on her left side. At the foot of the bed were seated. Madame d'Hautefort and Madame Hamster; Dr. Denenx and Dr. Meuiere were standing at its head. " President Pastoureau then approached the Princess. and addressed to 114 in a loud voice the following qitestions-• Is it to the Dutehess De Berri that I have the honour ,
to speak Yes.' • You are positively the Dutchess De Bern?'-' TM, Sir.' • Is the new born infant near you yours?-' Yes Sir, this infant is mine." What is its sex?'-' It is of the female sex. Moreover, I have charged M. Deneux to make Coda- ration thereof.' " And. instantly, Louis Charles Deneux, Doctor in Medicine, ex-Profeesor of Clini- cal Midwifery of the Faculty of .Paris. Titular Member of the Royal Academy of Me- dicine, made the following declaration-' I have just d-Aivered the Dutchess Re Berri, here present, wife by lawful marriage of Count Hector. Lucchesi Pe111, of the Princes of Campo-Franco. Gentleman of the Chamber of the King of the Two Sicilies; demi-. ciliated at Palermo."
The child is named ANNE MARIE ROSALIE. The-titular father, Count LUCCHESI PALM, is Neapolitan Envoy at the Hague; from which, it appears, from the Private Correspondence of the Times, he has not absented himself during the last twelve months at least. When he was first asked to allow the to be fathered upon him, (we learn from the demanded about 120,6004 us a compepsati consented to take about a third of that sum. The real father ia supposed to be a Monsieur Guisoans, the corifidentia) adviser of the Dutchess. who has been almost constantly • with her during ter late wanderings. She is to be Sent to Naples as soon as she is well enough to bear'ethe voyage. A vessel is already ordered to proceed to Blaye in order to take her there. Her partisans are so perfectly confounded by the birth of the child, that they can ' think of nothing better to say, than that the whole story of the pregnancy, delivery, and marriage, is a fabrication; whereas it is trim in every particular except the last.
. The resignation of' M. HUMANN, the French Minister of Fi- nance, is said to be in contemp'ation. His bill respecting the Iginking-fu:Id, and indeed his Budget as a whole, is said to be un- satisfactory to the Chambers. As it announces no reduction of c7onsequence in the taxes or expenditure of the country, the ground for dissatisfaction seems to be sound.
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