The French Chamber of Deputies has been occuzed anrinkithe •
past week with discussions as to the propriety._ _egaliznag the marriages of Catholic clersTmen after their retirepreAt ftern thes,
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performance of their holy functions; and the Parisian saloons have been enlivened by the scandalabout the little Datchess DE BERRI, 'who has put forth a declaration that she is secretly married. The Jioniteur of the 25th gives the,termsof it officially—
On Friday the 22d February, at half-past eve, Madame the Dutchess of Berri deli- vered to the General llugeaud, Governor of the Citadel of Blaye. the following decla- zation.
"Pressed by my circumstances, and by the measures ordained by the Government, +although I had the most urgent motives for keeping my marriage secret, I think I owe it to myself as well as to my Ahildren to declare, that I was secretly married during my -sojourn in Italy. (Signed) "MARIA CAROLINE." "From the Citadel of Blaye, this 22d Feb. 1933."
This declaration, transmitted by the General Bugeaud to the President of the Coon. Anil, the Minister of War, was immediately deposited in the depot of the archives of the Criancery of France.
We mentioned last week what the Dutchess's "circumstances" were; and as her husband was nowhere to be found, thought that the circumstances were somewhat discreditable to the immaculate Dulcinea of the Carlist Quixotes, who have recently broken several latices with Republican wits in defence of her purity. But we are Lappy to learn that she has a husband in petto; though, as she Las not been in Italy for upwards of ten months, we are afraid he via be found in a rank inferior to royalty ; and the affair might still look awkward, if the previous ilife and conversation of the Dutchess had not been, as all the world knows, perfectly irre- proachable. This little incident puts an end, for the present, to the hopes of Carlism.
