THE WIFE OF JEROME BONAPARTE.

Ir may, perhaps, not be very generally known to many of our readers that the ex-King Jerome has a beautiful wife still alive in America, Mrs. Bona

parte Paterson. She is a very amiable and talented lady, and though, now, at an advanced age, she has the remains of uncommon beauty. She was a Miss Paterson, and belonged to one of the most distinguished families in the United States of America. Her maternal grandfather was the celebrated Mr. William Carrol, of Carrolstown, one of those who signed the original declaration of American Independence; and the direct descendant and representative of the chiefs of the princely Irish race of the O'Carrol's.

Miss Paterson's brother married his own first cousin, also a grand-child of the ancient patriarch

of liberty, Carrol of Carrolstown, Miss Caton, who, after her husband's death, wedded the Marquess Wellesley. Another sister is Mrs. MacTavish, mother of the beautiful Mrs. Howard, now deceased; another is the Duchess of Leeds, and another Lady Stafford. Thus Mrs. Bonaparte Paterson is extensively connected amongs tthe highest aristocracy, as well as descended from the best families in the United States of America.

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She was married to Jerome Bonaparte, when he was captain of a vessel during the consulate of Napoleon. When the French empire was established, and it pleased Napoleon to make Jerome a king, he insisted upon a divorce from Miss Paterson, which accordingly took place, but without any reason beyond the despotic will of the aristoJerome repudiated his beautiful, virtuous, and well-born American wife, and married the Princess of Wirtemberg, and, with her, ascended the throne of Westphalia. By Miss Paterson he had a son, who is now a citizen of the United States of America; and appears, certainly, to be entitled to the position of a French Prince of the imperial dynasty. It seems unreasonable that the marriage of Lucien, Prince of Canino, and Joseph, King of Spain, should be held to be valid, while to the first marriage of Jerome with a wellborn lady, legality is denied.

Though Miss Paterson was repudiated, the marriage was a real one, and the son of that marriage is the eldest lawful son of the Ex-King Jerome; and, according to the law of succession in the French Empire, should old Jerome, like a second Claudius, mount the Imperial throne, it would be difficult to show why Mr. Bonaparte Paterson, citizen of America, should not succeed him as heir of the Napoleonean Imperial dynasty.

However, this short notice is not intended to convey political speculations, but to record a curious matter of fact, which it is worth while to rescue from oblivion. During the latter years of the reign of King Louis Philippe, Mrs. Bonaparte Paterson was in Paris. She happened one day, moved by curiosity, to accompany a friend to the house of Madlle. Le Normand, the celebrated fortune-teller. She was personally unknown to Madlle. Le Normand, and the certainty of this renders the prediction which that cunning woman delivered, doubly curious.

Madlle. Le Normand predicted to her that, ere long, the Bonaparte dynasty would again reign in France, and be more powerful than ever they had been. Mrs. Bonaparte Paterson laughed at the prediction, and regarded it as the vaticination of a distempered fancy; and at the time that she mentioned the fact, some years ago,

she continued to laugh at it, as well she mightthe career of Louis Napoleon, as President, being only at its commencement. Now, however, his full-blown Imperial power shows that Madlle. Le Normand had correctly calculated the chances of the future.

LADY OGILVY'S ESCAPE.

MARGARET, LADY OGILVY, wife of David, Lord Ogilvie, eldest son, John, fourth Earl of Airlie, and daughter of Sir James Johnstone, third Baronet of Westerhall, and Dame Barbara Murray, his most energetic and talented wife, daughter of the fourth Lord Elibank, was one of the keenest supporters of the unfortunate Prince Charles Edward Stuart, when he raised his standard in Scotland in 1744. Finding the Ogilvies somewhat backward and hesitating in the cause, she persuaded her husband that so long as his father, the Earl of Airlie, did not appear in the field, he risked neither rank nor property by heading the clan. He perilled his own life and liberty, indeed,-but those were freely offered to the most popular Prince who ever asserted his contested rights to a throne. Lady