Napoleon Supposed to be Mad
Napoleon Supposed to be Mad.—A correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, writing from London under date of Oct. 31st, says, Strange rumors are afloat about the health of Napoleon, and in spite of all my endeavors to ascertain the real state of the matter, I am unable to assert either their truth or their falsity. It is said that he has fits, and gets occasionally raving mad; but that, with the exception of short periods of depression following these crises, his mental powers have not generally suffered. Whether these rumors be true or false, they have considerable influence on the French nation, and a presentiment of revolutions looming in the next future gets hold of the population. Republicanist, Socialist, Legitimist and Orleanist "placards" re-appear on the walls of Paris; people are arrested by scores, and even the cautious London Exchange loses its belief in the stability of the Imperial Government.