The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-26 00:00:00

DEATH OF PRINCE JEROME BONAPARTE,

The Paris Moniteur announces the death, on Sunday
evening, of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, ex-king of West-
phalia, and the last of the brothers of the great Emperor
Napoleon, among whom were partitioned the states which
he acquired by his successive conquests.
The deceased prince was in his 77th year. He was the
youngest child of Charles and Letitia Bonaparte, and the
youngest brother of the Emperor Napoleon I. His father
died in 1785—the year following the birth of the prince—.
and the training of the child was undertaken by his mother
in Corsica. When his brother rose to power, he placed
Jerome and his sister Caroline at the establishment of
Madame Campan, in Paris, where he remained until the
return of Napoleon from his first campaign in Italy. He
was then transferred to the College of Juilly ; and on his
brother having been elevated to the First Consulship Je-
rome entered the naval profession. In 1801, when in his
seventeenth year, he was appointed to the command of
the corvette L'Epervier, in the expedition to St. Domingo
under Gen. Le Clerc, whence young Jerome brought the
despatches. Some escapades of his on shore at Brest
led to his receiving from his brother Napoleon a charac-
teristic rebuke, in which occur these words :—" I am
waiting with impatience to hear that you are on
board your ship, studying a profession intended to
be the scene of your glory. If you ever mean
to disgrace your name, die young ; for if you live to sixty
without having served your country, you had better not
have been born." Jerome soon after sailed for Matti-
nique, and when the war broke out between France and
England he sought in vain to fulfil the injunctions of his
brother, and after a cruise of several months he put
into New York. He visited Philadelphia, and, Decem-
ber 24, 1803, he married Miss Elizabeth Patterson, the
daughter of a merchant of Baltimore, descended from a
Scotch family settled in the north of Ireland. This
marriage displeased Napoleon, and after a year passed in
the United States, Jerome was compelled by his brother
to return to Europe; he landed with his wife at Lisbon,
in May, 1805. Jerome left for Paris, and the lady went on
in the ship to Amsterdam ; on arriving in the Texel, an
order had been received forbidding her to land; she accord-
ingly came to England, where she resided at Camberwell.
He next went on a mission to Algiers, whence he returned
with 250 Genoese captives, whom he landed at Genoa,
where he was received with great honour as " the young
Napoleon of the Sea." He next took the command of
the Veteran line•;of-battle ship, in an eight months'
cruise in the West Indies. On his return thence
he took six English merchantmen ; but he was pursued by
the English fleet, and his vessel was stranded off the
the coast of Brittany. On reaching Paris, Jerome
received the cordon of the Legion of Honour., was pro-
moted to the rank of admiral, and created a prince of
the empire. Nevertheless his predilection for the army
continued, and he soon after obtained the command of
a body of Bavarian and Wirtemberg troops, at the
head of which he directed the blockade of Glogan, and
reduced the fortresses of Silesia ; services for which he
was made a general of division in the imperial army.
Jerome, by the ambitious instigation of the Emperor,
next entered into an alliance with the Princess Frederica-
Caroline, daughter of the King of Wirternberg ; and
immediately after the marriage Jerome was proclaimed
King of Westphalia, and the constitution of the new
kingdom was published. The young King, then only
twenty-two years old, was much beloved, and startled
the world by his administrative skill ; he replenished his
exchequer by a loan from the Jews, whom he repaid
by the concession of perfect religious freedom,
With the end of the empire of Napoleon closed the
reign of Jerome, King of Westphalia. He now assisted
his brother iu his reverses ; and after sharing in the
vicissitude of defeat at the hands of the Allies,
Jerome sought refuge with his wife at Trieste
and Paris. At Waterloo he played a conspicuous
part, being chosen by Napoleon to open the battle at
the head of 6,000 men. Jerome now lived many years
in retirement at the castle of Elvangen, in Wirtemburg,
at Vienna, and at Trieste. He at length returned to
France, and by the Emperor Napoleon HI. was nomi-

nated to the Presidentship of the French Senate. His
only son by the amiable Elizabeth Patterson married a
lady of fortune in America. Of Jerome's marriage with
the Princes of Wirtemberg, three children were the

issue :—Jerothe Napoleon, born in 1814 ; Mathilde,
born 1819 ; and Napoleon, iu 1823.

Lord Wriothesley Russell preached on Sunday after-
noon, in Covent Garden Market.
MADAME JESSIE WHIWE MA.mo.—The statement

that this lady and her husband were on board the
steamer which was taken by the Neapolitan cruisers is
happily ineorreet. They were on hoard the other vessel,
commanded by Colonel Medici, which arrived safely at
Palermo.

QUICK PASSAGE OF A SAILING VESSEL.--IVO observe
that the Tyburnia, commanded by Capt. F. Coote, has
made the passage from ilavannah in the remarkably
short period of 22 days, having left that port 27th May,
and arrived at the Scilly Isles on the 18th instant. Her
cargo consisted of 5,000 boxes of sugar, and her draft of
water was 22 feet.

A VETERAN AT THE REVIEW.—The venerable and
gallant general, Sir Archibald Maclaine, K. C. 8.,
attended the review in Hyde Park. He wore the uni-
form of his regiment, the 52nd Light Infantry, and
the Order of the Bath, together with numerous other
orders, clasps, and medals, and was received with
hurrahs awl cheers wherever he went. He was seated
in his Bath chair, and, thus situated, was carried on the
shoulders of eight stout Guardsmen. The Commander-
in-Chief, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
was pleased to confer the high honour on Sir Archibald
of ordering him a position in front, nearest to her
Majesty, the Bing of the Belgians, and the rest of the
royal party, strict orders being enforced not to intercept
his view or inspection of the volunteers.

Don't fill the library of the British Museum with rub-
bish, say those who object to the yearly warehousing of
tons of printed matter. What is rubbith ? pertinently
asks Mr. Panizzi. It is a difficult question to answer.
The rubbish of one generation becomes the treasure of
another. Bodley, we all know, excluded the very books
his successors have been most anxious to obtain . but we
were hardly prepared for a curious fact that revealed
itself in a rece,,t examination of the old catalogues, As
late as the middle of the last century, the. Bodleian
could only boast of one quarto edition of any of the
genuine plays of Shakspeare, and that the common and
valueless edition of " Hamlet," printed in 1637 !
.Athenezum,

A PLEASING ANECDOTE.—In the Highlands of Scot-
land there is a mountain gorge twenty feet in winth,
and two hundred feet in depth. Its perpendicular walls
are bare of vegetation save in their crevices, in which
grow numerous wild flowers of rare beauty. Desirous
of obtaining specimens of these mountain beauties, some
scientific tourist once offered a Highland boy a hand-
some gift if he would consent to be lowered down the
cliff by a rope, and would gather a little basketful
of them. The boy looked wistfully at the money,
for his parents were poor ; but when he gazed at
the yawning chasm, he shuddered, shrank back,
and declined. But filial love was strong within
him ; and, after another glance at the gift, and at the
terrible fissure,, his heart grew strong, his eyes flashed,
and he said—" I'll go, if my father will hold the rope !"
And then, with unshrinking nerves, cheek unhlanched,
and heart firmly strung, he suffered. his father to put
the rope about him, lower him into the wild abyss, and
to suspend him there while he filled his little basket
with the coveted flowers. It was a daring deed ; but
his faith in the strength of his father's arm, and the
love of his father's heart, gave him courage and power
to perform it.

II
ME POPE'S ARMY : EXTRAORDINARY DISCLOSURRS
AT HULL.—For some time past Hull has been the
scene of considerable excitement consequent upon the
arrival and departure of numbers of Irishmen who have
joined the Pope's army. Several hundreds of these
recruits have arrived in Hull during the last fortnight
from Ireland, and, after remaining in the town for a
day or two, have taken their departure in steamers ply-
ing between that port and Antwerp. From what many
of these persons have stated, it appears that they have
left situations in Ireland in order to proceed to Italy,
but it would appear, from a declaration made at the
Hull police-court, that some at least of them have been
grossly imposed upon and deceived as to the real object
for which they were leaving their native 'country.
One deposed that he had been, ialduced to leave home on
the promise of having plenty of work as a carpenter, a
bounty of £l5 and is. pet day wages being held out.
He was told that very many buildings, fortifications,
ece, were going to be erected; and be said distinctly at
th,e time he consented to go that he did not go
to do, had he known for the
purpose of being a soldier. As soon as they
arrived
there, however, (at Marcerata), the
insistedanthorities
upon his signing an agreement to serve as soldier
under his holiness for four Ye'ars ;
which he said a
nothing
on. earth should have induced him
it before he left Ireland.

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