The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1879-06-28 00:00:00

It was officially annouiced that the German Court would
go into mourniug on Monday, and until the 30th inst., for
relict) Louts Napoleon.

HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED IN FRANCE.

The Paris Correspondent of the Daily Nets wrote:
—" The news of the Prince's death has bees received
with a feeling of stupefaction. Regret is uppermost
in most minds. The people say the young Prince has
paid the debt to glory due from the Bonapartists
since Sedan, and has redeemed the military honour
of his name. They are sorry, too, for the bereaved
and exiled lady at Chislehurst, and none can
think without a pang of the overwhelming grief
which has fallen upon her wha was once Empress
of France. The Bonapartes have been always per-
sonally beloved, especially by the army; and as this
is the only one who has died in battle, the tears
which old soldiers shed for him are not without pride.
Pleasant stories are told of him. People remember
his cheery talk. They say he rode to danger like a
French cavalier, with laughter in his eyes and a jest
upon his tongue; and that he died as a banished
Emperor should die, with the name of his country
among his last-recorded words."

The following is an extract from the letter of the
Paris; Correzpondent of The Timef:--
It is impossible to IP:&gine an event which would have
caused a greater sensation in France than the news of the
death of the Prince imperial. It is cnly justice to the
French nation to my that the prevailing sentiment is one
of melancholy astonishment. Even among the greatest
opponents of the Bonapartists no unbecoming expressiop is
heard. The only objection entertained to the young Range
who has just died was based npon apprehensions of his suc-
ceeding to the throne and upon the feelings of hostility ex-
,citef). by his partisans. Personally he had done nothing to
Ineigy ay resentment against him, but his political friends
had taken np a; agcresslve and threatening attitude, and
many peopta Van over to the Republic from a
fear of the possible catablishment of a Third Empire
to which they were strOngl7 cpposed. All appre-
hension of this kind now vinishea. 'the Bonapartist
party is paralyzed as by a lightning stroke, and i,he Tttepule-
ilc, while it is freed from a dangerous pretender, loges thoae
a its supporters who had only adopted Republicanism aa a
Er.eans of preventing the restoration of the Empire
Tgop,iws, which spread with great rapidity, caused a
buret of siltprwo cad aupefaction, and that, as might have
been anticipated 4`ana,lf;ae =tante' character, the most in.
credible rumours sm.° Pt tuto ircalation. In particular,
one was struck by the strange ";c6lnci4ence that twice since
the departure of the Prince launders oil dtath ba,
_vc teen
current, and its alleged that previous to staging h'eptd Some
presentiment of the fatal event, All parties, hoWelear,
Lt wetting that a fate so little in keeping with the legiti-
',Mate hapes Winch might have been entertained of the
PiliterAffittura *O4l have befallen him, and the general
ion,amittfiif tieti thOra xne.rri•ed iu regard to the unfortunate
Enseatin who Xias itered cc trei,AzOle a loss. As for the
leaders of tita Dohitiptlitt party', ac have had a
presentiment of the Alsapter,' and nub, terdidaYa ago ono of
them said to me, "We did alit' we ciuldto Ot.stritliOthe
Prince from going, but in vain, and ivhenli: AoulYer sew
hip and wished to ;peak to him on the subject, the
1314, 'There is no use in discussing the matter
as is pyoact; wa must resign oureelvez to facts.'"
Then, a.ll i 13y.eingnia4 my interlocutor added, "You
, will seal the ilkhs tltill)er •ipto his father. I believe
he will do great thingeAnt'at all revetto h 3 will do things
which nobody eapecte.. At the mcfoYent tpiii'vr:.-4,d; were
spoken the Prince had been dead eeventeen sin 4 ii;s
untimely end was a hater realization of the enthuslaatic
, prediction. We must visit some days before seeing the
atialud,o which the Bonapartist and Republican parties will
assuine, ter foaa wtipn Wien now may exercise a great in-
41tierica on the illbsacn4 Doliay of the Bonapattists and
up3n the future ikt the tlblic-ou oirf.

e.dd,ress he Agnaputpit,o to the j;papreas
gogeols )as tkeen drawn u? 43, tlfese terms
„ . .
" nom() rse, ley at your Majesty's feet the
expression di or wroidAtiri ned iginaeuxe gild. The blow
which strikes you so cXiiellY strips preme 10 bey'deepest
recollections acid. highest 40pe5. gon 'Os nfit peritped
that young Prince, who had already a theocjWities
of a Sovereign, to be prserved for your love, Mr' he
service of France, and for our tender and entire devotion.
Death takes him from us at the moment when we had a right
to ezpect France would soon recall him. We do not compare
yo 4 grtal t Irs, although ours is without limits. We
mwielircehly hirrSagnycoeUsiiirrshe,salace,aivicepitc;lve"h,o4nAgealolf
ctohmategarniedt
offer you the expresaioll."
.4.pd to this is subjoined the following declaration
Sanors and Deputies of the Appeal to the People
have assermlilectio-dai. However profound their grief, it ill
their duty to. 'sigh:a' befoYe the cmatry that it tne Prinee
ft4priisl is deatd hts tesus it suilives'Alm. The succession of
the I:incie6ns does net fall Unlashed. Teprespnting afl
imporishabre the frOperialirt party rimititric erect,
compact, faithful, an de'ete'd. The Erbpire Oaf 117e1"
. •. .

The Republique Privatise considers that the event of the
Prince's death nes extinguished the Bonapartist party. Da
rh/q it will, it says, tie faction is going to pieces. Most of
fine e1.,...1.07s T 7 ho remained fai.hful to the Empire will now,
the Repu6iiqiis ,o ~alai. thinks, rally to the Republic. The
Bonapartist senfitors'ancYdbpiitiees;ittyo meanwhile issued a
Proclamation, in whicts they saY that,'Pr4 s 9 in their
arid, they feel it a duty to tell the country that theirgh Cue
Prince Imperial is deal his cause survives; "The succession
of the ;Tapoleons (they add) is not vacant. Representing an
imperitiatlu pirin.ciids, the Imperialist party remains up-
standing and devote?. The r.cipire will live."

Galignani says : "We are enabled to stata that if all the
persuasion of his motter and friends failed to prevent Prince
14onis Napoleon from loining the expedition in which he has

unhappily fallen a victim, it was because the same influences
proved a successful impediment to his joining the Austrian
army in its Bosnian campaign, or the British forces in their
operations against Afghanistan. Political reasons were
adduced in both these cases to dissuade him, and the argu-
ments proved sufficient to his sound sense: bat in the Zulu
war politics could not be invoiced as a check to the military
ardour with which he burned, and he positively refused to
surrender his own will."

"The melancholy event caused the profoundest sorrow
among the pensioners at the Hotel des Invandes, where a
few glorious old veterans who fought under Napoleon I.
are still to be found. One of the heroes of Lutzen,
Bautzen, and Leipstc, in describing how the news was
received at the Invalides, said in his rough, simple,
but touching language :—"Ah, sir, this is not just. A.
Napoleon ought not to die assassinated by such dirty niggers
as the Zulus And then he was ao young, the poor little
fellow. ' Ah 1 you should have seen how upset we all were.
Some of us could not eat our soup. Of course we did not
weep, because we are too old and tough, and we should have
looked like babies but we felt something in the throat
which was hard to swallow, and then we swore a little to
ease ourselves. I saw him once, many years ago, but I have
forgotten how he looked. But that is no matter. To all of
us he was the nephew of the Petit Caporal. whom we loved
and foneht for. That was enough for tte—Paris Correspond-
ent of Standard.