The Joinville regiment--Cavalerie de la Marine--is one of the finest in the service." "Orders have been given to arrest the fanatic who calls himself Duke of Brittany, and who has been making some disturbances in the Pas de Calais." "ANECDOTE OF HIS MAJESTY .-- At the review of troops (Police) yesterday, his Majesty, going up to one old grognard and pulling him by the ear, said, 'Wilt thou have a cross or another ration of wine ?' The old hero, smiling archly, answered, 'Sire, a brave man can gain a cross any day of battle, but it is hard for him sometimes to get a drink of wine.' We need not say that he had his drink, and the generous sovereign sent him the cross and ribbon too." On the next day, the Government journals began to write in rather a despondent tone regarding the progress of the pretenders to the throne.
In spite of their big talking, anxiety is clearly manifested, as appears from the following remarks of the Debats:-- "The courier from the Rhine department," says the Debats, "brings us the following astounding Proclamation:-- "'Strasburg, xxii.

Nivose: Decadi.

92nd year of the Republic, one and indivisible.

We, John Thomas Napoleon, by the constitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French Republic, to our marshals, generals, officers, and soldiers, greeting: "'Soldiers! "'From the summit of the Pyramids forty centuries look down upon you.
The sun of Austerlitz has risen once more.

The Guard dies, but never surrenders.