The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-25 00:00:00

DEATH OP PRINCE JEROME BONAPARTE.

The Paris Muniteur announces the death last
evening of Prince Jerome Bonaparte, es-King of Westphalia,
and the last of the brothers of the great Emperor Napoleon,
among whom were partitioned the states which he acquired
by his successive conquests.
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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 1. 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,
Jerome entered the naval profession. In 1801, when in his
seventeenth year, he was ►ppointed 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 characteristic rebuke, in which
occur thaw words :—" lam waiting with impatience to
hear that you are on board your ship, studying a profession
intended to be the sane 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 Martinique;
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 Philialelphia, 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 mar•
riage 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 bad
been received forbidding her to land ; she accordingly came
to England, where she resided at Camberwell. On July
7th was born her son, Jerome-Napoleon Bonaparte. Still the
Emperor Napoleon would not recognise the marriage ; nor was
Madame Jerome Bonaporte permitted to enter France. In
the March previously the marriage had been, by a special
decree of the Council of State, declared null and void. The
Emperor next applied to the Pope for a bull annulling the
marriage, which, however, his Holiness hail not the
power to issue ; and he wrote a long letter to Napoleon,
explaining the reasons. Meanwhile, Jerome, who wan greatly
attached to his wife, temporised, rather than further pro.
voke his brother. 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 Sc"n. He next took the
command of the Veteran line-of-battle ship, in sin 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 creed
of Brittany. On reaching Paris, Jerome received the cordon
of the Legion of Honour, was promoted to the rank of admiral,
and created a prince of the empire. Nevertheless his pre.
dilection for the army continued, and he soon after obtained
the conuuaud 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 iu 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 Wirtemberg ; and immediately
after the marriage Jerome was proclaimed King of West-
phalli', and the constitution of the new kingdom was pub.
liehed. The young King, then only twenty-two years old,
was much beloved, and startled the world by his administra-
tive skill ; he replenished his exchequer by a loan from
the Jews, whom he repaid by the concession of perfect re-
ligious freedom, observing that " Nu man ought to interfere
with the exercise of the religious worship of any man.
Every subject ought to be as free to observe the rules of
his faith as the King himself. It is the duty of the citizens
only that the laws of government ought to regulate. I
hope I shall never have cause to regret that I favour and
protect the Israelites of my kingdom." With the end of
the empire of Napoleon closed the reign of Jerome, King of
Westphalia. He now assisted his brother in his reverses;
and after sharing in the vicissitudes 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 Elvangeu, in Wirtemberg, at
Vienna, and at Trieste. He at length returned to Francs,
and by the Emperor Napoleon 111. was nominated to the
Presidentship of the French Senate. His only son by the
amiable Elizabeth Patterson married a lady of fortune in
Amities. Of Jerome's marriage with the Princess of Wir.
tenberg, three children were the issue : Jerome-Napoleon,
born in 1814; Mathilde, born 1819; and Napoleon, in
1823.

THE UNITED STATES.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.

-
The Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain Stone,
from Boston on the lath, and Halifax on the night of the
14th inst., arrived here this afternoon.
The main features of her news, received by telegraph
from Queenstown, have been already published.
The steamer North Briton hence arrived at Quebec On
the 10th ; the Arago, from Southampton, arrived at New
York on the 11th ; the Niagara, hence at Halifax, and the
Vigo, hence at New York on the 13th inst.
The southern seceders from the Democratic National
Presidential Convention met at Richmond, Virginia, on the
11th inst. Resolutions were finally udopted declaring thit4
as the action of the convention was contingent upon that et
the Baltimore Convention, in regard to a platform, it ad.
journ to the 21st instant. The President of the Sem-
' sionista denied that it was their purpose to promote dis-
union, and declared that they were only perforuiing a duty
which the south owed to itself.
Both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature had
adopted resolutions thanking Mr. Sunnier for his recent
speech in the Senate on the shivery question.
Considerable opposition was shown, however, and
the resolutions were not coned until they were
also made to include thanks to the other se-
nator from Massachusetts fur his serrieec in the senate.
Violent threats had been uttered against Mr. Sumner by
sundry slave •owners in Washington, sod his position was
considered so dangerousthat he was constantly surrounded
by numerous friends as a protection front violence. One In-
dividual had been arrested fora,' attempted assault on the
senator, but he was liberated ou nicking an epolosl.

QUEENS OWN, JUNI U.
The royal mail ateamahip Persia, Captain Jud-
kin% arrived Mee at 10 a.m. tbi nwroing, embarked the
made and passengers, and prueeeded for New York at
5.30 p.m.

MUSIC.

GLUCK'S OPERA&

have already mentiooel the performance of
Iltd IC Timm ler week, in the lowa of a eoecert oa-
t Ne emirs of N. Charles Halle ; asd we observe that
•her twee' at t►e rave crest wirriaa—Orfve—is to be
.1 vv.!. but likewise is the eassert fuer, at the Royal
Ow% as Weinky No&

cETSTAL PELAOI-1111ENCE FESTIVAL.
ITEM DAT.)

for now INS& Visitors, many of whom did not
till bile het sight, must have had their early prem-
.. %Meet the It climate suddenly strengthened, me
•. eg freen their beds them morning, Just after 6 o'clock
ran seem down in torrents, and continued more or he.
t. until sone. The boor lied for the reheuml at
••-Iceleane was half last 9, but the Orpheonists being scat
t- r• "'IT Lireedm—Lesceeterismare being at this comaion
limited—the mennblogi wee menewhat delayed. Cabe.
fr-tts the wisdom of which peered French face. whirr cu.
r • .oly at the London sakes, were riding towards Landon-
I
rtt., up to pug 9 o'clock. Much of the populism es were
in the streets were to,, much allsearhed in the estlstemer
t. keep off the wet to ham say thee to be-
•t.se on their weeleil invader& and the mans
meerred for the merfemessee at the Omelet Mace.
We toed theA the orchestra at the Crystal Palm*
L., I bees decorated with much elaboratioe and
In each of the twenty-eight com-
portments into whisk the back of the orations
er divided, the ease of • department of France has
hens inscribed, Seim end Nord being pled oo each side
of the orPo Wreathe of evengrelne and lowers bang
below, and from them mph see dependent red shields,
Bering the name. of the swasaisiag departments in which
tls., choral ea-Miles taking part he the festival re located.
• - of these is pieced a bust of some of the
celehrsted Freochrneo, Montaigne, tinily, Racine,
.ere, Button, HialMheu, Ineeartes, Pima, and
.-rs. The whole iv surmounted by numerous
ffsire riming from gilled eagles; &mum of
sod other shrubs tilling up the lower beck ground.
the centre of the organ is an embismatical device
• re, hoods in mime, labelled respectively France and
is either side are the initials V. A. and
sums,rted by busts of the Queen and the Frier*
sal by throe of the Empress and Emperor of the
•. h, the arms of England and France surrounded by
of evergreen. and lowers between the bust. In
A of the organist is a trophy of tricoloured leg with a
.:e gilt eagle with outstretched wings. Along the centre
• tin orchestra runs the following inmreption be letters
t :roe (ea Wog :

" Aus artistes Francais!
N. soot de pas nos (rimer
Th.• front id the orchestra IS decorated with Bowers and
otalurry,

The rehearsal of the vocal pieces, although fixed fur •
mob caller hour, did Dot commence mild nearly stereo ;
•MTiculty of assembling .o large • body of forgivers
f 14 them ignorant of locality and language) being quite
• .11. tent to Justifythe delay.

titer a few prellnitaaryoreped'essr. on the organ by
noeur Edouard Batiste (the organist of St. Eustache at
Mn..o lielaports, Use coodoctor and fouader,of the
inpliforust !iorieties. raised his baton sod the assembled
honsters corionenosil pucker's " Chant du Bivouac." The
Sr .% impresmon on the hearer was that of surprise that so
rustily combined voices did not produce a greater
volume of mum,; but thi. feeling was quickly absorbed in
satisfaction with the inimical quality of the tone, the Keel.
non of attack, and the admirahlegradatimsofp.ao aadfaete.
There was none of that nasal quality which used to be, of
.4.1, the reproach of French choral singins, and
when it is remembered that many of them ishoristsee see
of the cl......srnirr, the delicacy and real:mascot whisk they
base attained are worthy of all admiratina. Bat
I,e the tett to which the musk or allied,
ilw effect w. much more like that of the beet Omensa
thorn...log-mg (such a. the Cologne and Bella choirs) then
what was probably anticipated from French voices. The
hos tenors bare that light and tunable quality sad
Iletiltility intooatitio which we must camlidly own are
often wanting is some of our own choral performances.
l. de admitting that an equal body 14 English choristers
it- old produce a greater volume of sound, lied a grander
soot is music of a massive character, it cannot be domed
hat in effect of coetrest. precision of tempo, and justness of
iatonstioo, some of ow choral bodies would do well to
esneLde the Orphisostista

Awed the other pewee rehearsed were the Hyme "Vol
ereetot," by Besosai Mime. " Lee Wane de Per*"
by Adarn ; two pieces composed specially to the noes-
Aso Ay Halevy and Arnhem,. Themes; the " lleptesor
du liusl," foots Meyerhrer's opera lea Hapiewats, and
i.ur 'Ave oatioual Aathent, " (hal ears the Queses." The
1.4 leas po eta were ',comp...led by the head of the
Goia. which hes case over by special permission of the
Einprerw.

"Goa sire the Queen' Wll. rung with Faglieh words, to
fardatat• the reedoeing of which compliment versions
the test hem been for ame tine in the
hurts of the singers, spelled phonetically. according
t. their pecianaciet,on sod thc moist winw such a. to put
411 M tench of the English,Freuch which we aanunaly
nut, to Pun..

The rehoarml terrnmited shortiv after misl4lay, when
ttotampal err.. &Mr tn.: f r tl ',labile performance, the
wrattwr haring to 11144110 latent improved, and promising •
isrighter moppet for the onaclusion of the day's
M readings.